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

2010-01-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones 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 proceeded to

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 ext

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

2010-01-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones 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 in th

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. Mos

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 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 UNSU

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 > w

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 pro

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: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=

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

2010-01-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones 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: > > > http://www.debian.or

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/ Dow

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 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 352...@bugs.debian.org), as subscr

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

2010-01-15 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones 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: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

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 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

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

2010-01-14 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Jones 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.

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 is