Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC - FIXED

2010-01-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: I booted the squeeeze netinst again and after being prompted for the .cis file and inserting the vfat floppy, after a long hesitation, I saw some dhcp messages flash by and the green light on the dongle of my NIC came on. I switched to a shell and

Re: Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:42:09PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote: I'm very sorry for the long delay on this! And so you should be..! :-) I would prefer to create a FAT filesystem and copy the file to it. You are right.. I tried to create a /lib/firmware/3CCFEM56.cis on an old floppy with an ext2

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 January 2010, Chris Jones wrote: Since I have the hardware available and you probably don't, would you need me to download and test an unstable or experimental install in this respect? There is no version of the installer based on the 2.6.32 kernel available yet. -- To

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 January 2010, Chris Jones wrote: First of all, why are you gentlmen replying to me directly instead of posting to the list? We are replying to the *bug report* and CCing you as the submitter of the bug report. Most submitters of bug reports are not subscribed to the mailing list,

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:08:46AM EST, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010, Chris Jones wrote: First of all, why are you gentlmen replying to me directly instead of posting to the list? We are replying to the *bug report* and CCing you as the submitter of the bug report. Most

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:43:59AM EST, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 17 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: Could you try to find out if the firmware is non-free? Could it be included in the debian-archive? In unstable it looks to be included

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:58:03PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote: To investigate, if this problem still exists in the recent installer and to help fixing it (if it still exists), you could try a daily build of the installer for squeeze:

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: Could you try to find out if the firmware is non-free? Could it be included in the debian-archive? In unstable it looks to be included in the firmware-linux-free package, but with a changed extension:

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:56:14AM EST, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Hello, First of all, why are you gentlmen replying to me directly instead of posting to the list? Do this mean that you would rather discuss this off-list? Or am I misundertanding how this list works? [..] This whole

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:43:59AM EST, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 17 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: Could you try to find out if the firmware is non-free? Could it be included in the debian-archive? In unstable it looks to be included in the firmware-linux-free package, but with a

Re: Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:58:03PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote: [..] To investigate, if this problem still exists in the recent installer and to help fixing it (if it still exists), you could try a daily build of the installer for squeeze: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-15 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: A comment to this bugreport told you, that this is a firmware issue. Sorry, I have little familiarity with the bug reporting system and I did no see this comment. Where can read the comments? I don't see any comments at:

Re: Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:58:03PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: As wrote above, you didn't miss anything, and you had was no problem with the bug reporting system. If someone writes a comment to your bugreport (writes a mail to

Bug#352758 -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
I reported Bug #352758 -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC -- c. four years ago and was wondering if there were any new developments. I was directed to this list but am unsure whether this is indeed the right place to ask. One thing I have noticed

Re: Bug#352758 -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-14 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: I reported Bug #352758 -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC -- c. four years ago and was wondering if there were any new developments. A comment to this bugreport told you, that this is a firmware issue. Support

Re: Bug#352758 -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:07:08PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: I reported Bug #352758 -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC -- c. four years ago and was wondering if there were any new developments. A comment