Walter Hurry wrote:
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
I find myself in an odd situation:
- I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of
different distributions on it over the past couple of years
- I recently installed OpenSuse with no problems, but then I tried to
reinstall Debian (Squeeze) off a CD-Rom, and the installer hangs when it
goes off to detect network hardware -- this is repeatable
- if I just let it boot the OpenSuse distro that's currently on the hard
drive, everything comes up fine - so the NIC, DHCP on our home LAN, and
so forth all are working
- so.... any thoughts on what might be going wrong, or how to track down
what's happening?
note: I'm pretty sure that I installed Squeeze on this box at some
point, but it could be that the last Debian install was Lenny - and
recent discussion suggests that some of the network plumbing has
changed, perhaps in ways that are incompatible with my network card.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Here's a suggestion: Next time you ask a question like this, tell us what
NIC you have.
Easier said than done - the box is an off-brand box assembled by a local
computer store - there's a broadcom chip on the motherboard, and an
Intel card that I installed separately - but I'd have to do some
dissassembly to find specific model numbers (or figure out what commands
work in OpenSuse to grab the information). [Now if these were the
production servers, in the data center, I'd have no problem providing
details.]
Up to now, hardware autodetect has worked just fine - finding both NICs,
identifying them, and giving me a choice. Now it all just hangs. I
expect that I could escape out of the installer, and plug in some magic
incantations - but a little guidance is what I'm looking for. (I have a
vague memory that there's a package of non-free NIC drivers floating
around that might need to be installed for the broadcom chip to work,
but not the Intel one.)
Miles
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