Usablity: network configuration on machine without a network card (beta4 and tc1)

Hi all, Repies: please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list. Hardware: NEC Versa VX laptop (year 2000) Processor: Pentium III 450MHz Memory: 192M * No onboard network card * Summary: Installation was successful using the default choices, both with beta4 and tc1. But without a network card, netcfg

Bug#243543: no /etc/network/interfaces on a machine without network card

On May 23, 2004 13:19, Joshua Kwan wrote: I think it will just crap out and moan that it has no interfaces. :( Basically, we need some sort of heuristic to crap out conditionally, by determining whether the boot media contains enough pkgs to complete the install, or halt the installation right ther

Bug#253402: Deadlock with no ethernet card

Hello, Same here with tc1. I get presented successively with the following templates: 1) choice of modules: I choose "none of the above" 2) do I have a driver floppy ? I answer "no" 3) an error template that informs me no hardware was found. From there I go back to 1), the only way to break the de

Re: Usablity: network configuration on machine without a network card (beta4 and tc1)

Thank you both. In fact, I followed both suggestions, as there are 2 distinct issues: 1) ethdetect endless loop: it was already reported, I added comment to bug #253402 2) netcfg handling of the situation when there is no network card: I added comment to bug #243543 See U, Baptiste -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#617499: console-setup-mini: XKBOPTIONS is ignored when XKBVARIANT is empty

Package: console-setup-mini Version: 1.68 Severity: normal After upgrading to squeeze and installing keyboard-configuration and console-setup-mini, I couldn't get my compose:rwin option to be respected on the linux consoles. The compose key had no effect. However, Ctrl + . worked normally. I thi