no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-01 Thread Kent Dorfman
title says it all. There are no ethernet drivers in the modules directory for the netinstall image, other than a single broadcomm file...and no, it's not an obscure nic that requires custom firmware. It needs the humble e1000 driver. I'm looking to replace fedora with something having better lon

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Kent Dorfman
On 11/1/19, Kent Dorfman wrote: > title says it all. > Would be nice if the netinstall actually worked so that I could better > evaluate whether to take debian seriously. > a couple of points going forward: 1) I do not sign up on every list where I need support. If I did, I

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Kent Dorfman
;d make a strong argument that removing the common drivers from whatever kernel is used in "testing" is more an "unstable" action. My percpetion of debian/testing was more like fedora without the ridiculously short release/EOL (forced upgrade) issues. On 11/2/19, John Has