Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
R.M. Thomas rmtho...@sciolus.org (03/12/2012): Ah, I hadn't realized that I needed to install anything manually apart from firmware-linux-nonfree. Following your suggestion I've just installed the package firmware-realtek and on reboot the error message in syslog is no longer there. Thanks

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-25 Thread R.M. Thomas
On 25/12/12 21:04, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Do we consider it as an expected (as in: “need firmware”) situation? Or is there anything we could be doing on the d-i level to smooth things up? The installer left the machine in an apparently unusable state where (1) there was no internet

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
R.M. Thomas rmtho...@sciolus.org (25/12/2012): (2) there was no usable command-line prompt on the first reboot, because the firmware required for the Radeon card was not present and the X-server did not release me from the garbled GUI. Ben fixed that by disabling KMS when no radeon firmware is

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-25 Thread R.M. Thomas
On 25/12/12 22:04, Cyril Brulebois wrote: R.M. Thomasrmtho...@sciolus.org (25/12/2012): (2) there was no usable command-line prompt on the first reboot, because the firmware required for the Radeon card was not present and the X-server did not release me from the garbled GUI. Ben fixed that

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Dec 2012 at 17:00:40 +, R.M. Thomas wrote: On 02/12/12 15:30, Brian Potkin wrote: Please look at #694582 and see if it helps. In my case, the stall at Detect network hardware may not to be a firmware issue. After I had set up the configuration files /etc/network/interfaces

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-03 Thread R.M. Thomas
On 03/12/12 11:33, Brian Potkin wrote: On Sun 02 Dec 2012 at 17:00:40 +, R.M. Thomas wrote: On 02/12/12 15:30, Brian Potkin wrote: Please look at #694582 and see if it helps. In my case, the stall at Detect network hardware may not to be a firmware issue. After I had set up the

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 13:19 +, R.M. Thomas wrote: [...] Okay, that makes sense now. In my case the ethernet controller is the RTL8111/8168B for which the driver is r8169. Even though the package firmware-linux-nonfree has been installed, I am getting a message in syslog saying

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-03 Thread R.M. Thomas
On 03/12/12 13:28, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 13:19 +, R.M. Thomas wrote: [...] Okay, that makes sense now. In my case the ethernet controller is the RTL8111/8168B for which the driver is r8169. Even though the package firmware-linux-nonfree has been installed, I am

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-02 Thread R.M. Thomas
Package: installation-reports Boot method: From DVD image Image version: debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-DVD-1.iso Date: 2012-12-01 Machine: Self-build around Asrock X58 motherboard Processor: Intel i7-920 Memory: 6GB DDR3 Partitions: see attachment df_Tl.out Output of lspci: see attachment

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Dec 2012 at 12:22:50 +, R.M. Thomas wrote: Comments/Problems: I chose: Advanced options Alternative desktop environments Xfce Advanced options Expert install and answered questions about language, keyboard, locale (default), modules to load

Bug#694934: Installer hangs at detect network hardware

2012-12-02 Thread R.M. Thomas
On 02/12/12 15:30, Brian Potkin wrote: On Sun 02 Dec 2012 at 12:22:50 +, R.M. Thomas wrote: Comments/Problems: I chose: Advanced options Alternative desktop environments Xfce Advanced options Expert install and answered questions about language, keyboard, locale