Bug#603673: Workaround

2011-01-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:52:07AM -0500, Stephen Conrad wrote: I have found a workaround. It seems that while the Squeeze installer cannot seem to utilize the RTL8111, the resulting installation does not have the problem. I executed the following steps: 1) Installed an old 10/100 PCI

Bug#603673: Workaround

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Conrad
Matthew, After the installer completed and the CD ejected, I rebooted the machine and it booted strait into the graphical interface without any requests for firmware. At that point I verified that eth1 (the pci card) had an IP address and I pinged a few sites. When I moved the ethernet cable

Bug#603673: Workaround

2011-01-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
I have found a workaround. It seems that while the Squeeze installer cannot seem to utilize the RTL8111, the resulting installation does not have the problem. I executed the following steps: 1) Installed an old 10/100 PCI network card I had lying around 2) Booted from netinstall CD: