I have, to-day, re-installed debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-i386-DVD.iso on the same computer. This time I did not plug the printer into the USB socket However, I did plug in the USB mobile broadband device made by Huawei before I started.
I chose alternative desktop KDE, and British English, Then I used default options as far as possible until, it got to configuring the network, I had to tell it to "Do not configure network at this time." Later, I was invited to choose a mirror, I selected "Yes" then choose the default mirror. It failed to connect. I chose to continue without network mirror It finished installation successfully. It rebooted on IDE-0, still with only the Broadband Modem in a USB socket. I pressed <Ctrl><Alt><F1> and found the /var/log/install/ , it contains about 14 Mega-Bytes of data, do you really want all of it? I typed : lsusb > lsusb.txt and attach a copy of the resulting file. I pressed <Ctrl><Alt><F7> and logged in as the user. The computer successfully detected the USB Mobile Broadband. I used the GUI to configure it. It worked. So far so good. However the file /etc/apt/sources.list did not contain the right mirror data. I can correct this on my computer, but if I were to recommend Debian7 to some-one else, then they might never update the packages unless I do it for them. Apart from that, I think that I can recommend Debian 7 to new users. Congratulations. I have already recommended Debian 6.0.5 to a repair man. I said that his son might like to try it on their old computer. I never met him before, nor since. Thank you very much for your assistance. Best regards Richard Betham On Saturday 02 March 2013 17:14:03 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 11:25 +0000, Richard Betham wrote: > > Image: debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-i386-DVD-1.iso > > Boot-method: <DVD> > > Date: <01.03.2013> > > > > Machine: <NEC Powermate> > > > > > > Installer failed to detect mobile broadband device on USB. > > I suggest that the kernel module called 'option' should have > > been installed, but it was not. > > [...] > > > After boot-install I gave the command : > > echo 'option' >> /etc/modules > > then rebooted the computer on IDE-0. > > This seemed to cause it to detect the Huawei correctly > > [...] > > The module is installed, but cannot be used during installation > (configuring wireless modems is pretty complex). > > Explicitly loading a module should have no effect - if there is > any device it could work with, that would have caused it to be > loaded already by udev. (There are some exceptions, but option is > not one of them.) > > So I don't think this configuration change made the difference. > Can you send a kernel boot log (/var/log/dmesg) and the output of > 'lsusb'? > > Ben.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem / E230/E270/E870 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem
