On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:59:51PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > The system has a 3Com 3C905C-TX network card, which is well supported by > Linux. Apparently it isn't detected or the driver module is not part of the > Debian installer. I looked at the Debian Installer Manual to find a way to > manually configure the card as part of the install process, but didn't see an > entry for this. It may be there - but it isn't obvious from the contents. As > I did not want to reach a point that I had an unusable system with no way to > continue, I aborted the install at that point. > > This highlights what is (I believe) a serious flaw in the installation > process. You do *NOT* want someone to repartition their system if it is > already known that they cannot complete the installation process. It is not a > serious flaw if you don't detect the hardware (other distributions detect > this card, but that's still not a serious flaw in the Installer). It *IS* a > serious flaw if you don't let the user know about this before he destroys > what is probably a currently working system. If you don't detect any network > devices on the system, you should tell us that before asking us to > repartition the system. Ideally, you should allow us to tell you what network > card we have and even provide a driver if you don't have it available.
Um. I thought that was exactly what happened ... network configuration is before partitioning, and netcfg throws loud errors if it can't make a network connection. Did this not happen to you? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
