I've done about six further installations. Everytime the Xircom PCMCIA network card (REM56G-100) is used, the network card worked during the initial installation process, didn't work after the first reboot (so during the installation part that follows) and after all following reboots works. To verify if it is possible to get the network running after the first reboot I've run an /etc/init.d/networking restart (and also tried with stop and start) but the command didn't succeed. The message "Reconfiguring network interfaces" is displayed. Also an "init 1" and then "init 3" didn't make a difference.
Trying the same installation with another network card (3Com PCMCIA Etherlink III 3C589D) showed different results. The card worked from the beginning on and during the complete installation process with dhcp. The Xircom card worked the complete time during the installation when the IP was configured to a fixed value. Conclusion: Only DHCP seems to cause problems and only with the (tested) Xircom card. So this seems not to be a general issue with Debian, maybe the Xircom driver has a problem? Regards Thorsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
