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Things happen in a chronological order (with emphasis on logical )
Stories are most clear when told chronological
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to find out how the story ends)
English text is read (and written) from left to right
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</obvious>In other words: Reply below the text. On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:27:10AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote in a different order: > Please, I'm only am installing every so often to help test the new > installer. I hope that doesn't make you mad at me if I report something > went wrong. <emotional> Smile! No worries. Reports are about that something went wrong. So keep sending reports, it says what needs repair. [1] <personal> If you think someone goes mad, then ask what makes him/her mad You might find out that the other end is not mad. </personal> </emotional> <note to="myself"> Replying to an E-mail is better, then ignoring it. Keep considering that a well intended reply can be recieved as offensive. </note> > >I think there is a network controller detected. > >Please tell more about the hardware you are using. > >And why you conclude that the Ethernet Card is not detected. > Greet, > Notice I said the card was already detected before. I have had > unstable on this laptop for months now. I am trying to help test your > installer since that is what you guys claim you would like. Of course my > info looks like it detected my card for I sent lspci results from a previous > install in case it would help. > The bug is the fact that one day the installer detects the card and the > next day it doesn't. The installer a couple weeks ago installed sid just > fine, but yesterday it wouldn't detect the card. Something seems to have > changed. I thought reporting that would help you guys. > The hardware I am running can be found at > > http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/toshiba_satellite_a105-s4004_notebook.html Yes, we like feedback. The best proof of that we care about the feedback, is that we do a follow-up on it. So the laptop does have an onboard NIC and also an onboard wireless NIC. From the previous postings to this bugreport can be concluded that PCI card 0000:07:08.0 contains the Ethernet controller. Please provide the output of lspci -n -s 07:08.0 lspci -vv -s 07:08.0 Do that test with the lspci command in the installer. Because it uses the same kernel as the failing installer. From the original posting to this bugreport I did not read that the computer does work with other versions of Debian (installer) Things that did change in debian-installer is the kernel version. The 'dmesg output' does say that the NIC is detected. The reporter says that the NIC is not detected. <guessing> The "PHY driver" for the laptop NIC is changed. </guessing> Please bring the laptop to a state where it has a (detected and) working networking connection[2] and do a kernel upgrade. When the problem occures after the reboot (with the upgraded kernel) then we know that it is a kernel issue. Another thing I would to known is how the debian-installer behaves when the Network Interface Card is not detected. What is shown to the user? Cheers Geert Stappers -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/bottom-post.html
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