Hi, Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smie...@interia.pl> skribis:
>> That you were able to continue without networking looks like a bug. >> However, I just tried, and when networking is unavailable, I get the >> “Connection error” box that only allows me to go back to the “Checking >> connectivity” dialog; there’s no way to skip that AFAICS. > > Okay, I now know what *probably* have happened. My proprietary > motherboard - MSI PC Mate B350 tricked me - after updating the firmware > and enabling the "UEFI mode" instead of "UEFI or legacy BIOS" I got a > higher resolution and network started to work normally. Before enabling > it, the GUI installer couldn't find network connection itself, so I had > to manually configure network connection by using ifconfig and dhclient, > then I just followed the GUI installer, and it somehow let me continue > with or without networking. > Tried switching back to BIOS mode, but I can't reproduce the bug > anymore. None of this happens on my librebooted machine, tried hard to > break the installation :). Guess that's it, thanks for your time. I'm > probably going to sell this nonfree machine anyway. OK, thanks for explaining; closing the bug. Ludo’.
