Hello there,
I'm facing a "myterious" networking problem that only occurs during FAI installation:
Most Computers do recognize LAN connection without any promlems, but some (with identical hardware) don't.
Dmesg, lsmod and lspci shows identical output on all machines (RTL 8111/8168/8411 with kerneldriver 8169 and firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw in use)
Link is down and only 'ip link show up' shows 'no-CARRIER'. Some google querries later I found that replacing the network cable solves the issue. So long I'm able to deploy Debian.
The point I don't understand is that the same (defective ?) cable works well with Windows installed on the machine, even the ready installed Debian after deployment works very well with it (PXE-Boot, too). Only FAI complains about network conectivity during installation (and only on a very few clients). Non-free firmware is included in the deployment system.
Has anyone any ideas whats going wrong there? I don't want to exchange network cable just for installation.
Christian Meyer
