Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Boot method: beta2 businesscard CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso Date: 2006-03-19 ~14:00 UTC
Machine: Assembled PC (Duron processor, integrated NIC) Partitions: not relevant Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [E] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Installed system ok: [ ] Comments/Problems: My NIC has the following dubious feature: its default MAC address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. That doesn't prevent it from getting assigned an IP address via DHCP (it does, after all, receive the packets, since they are broadcast). But when it comes to actually transmit or receive IP packets, the broadcast address isn't exactly appropriate, and any attempt to fetch anything over IP fails. This is a problem I'm aware of, and I can't blame anyone for failing to support admittedly broken hardware out of the box. I know a workaround: Alt-F2, then manually set a MAC address in the NIC, then try again, which used to work (I obviously have to add a script to /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/eth0). Except it has ceased doing so (the following is a mockup of what actually happens): # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF # ifconfig eth0 hw ether 54:65:78:21:98:46 # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF # It appears that the debian/config-udeb file in the busybox source package (1:1.01-4) contains the following: # CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_HW is not set Which, according to the source, is precisely what makes my ifconfig invocation silently fail. I therefore suggest turning this feature back on. lspci -n: 0000:00:04.0 0200: 1039:0900 (rev 91) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
