Bug#618010: Workaround confirmed

I can confirm the workaround Ed proposed: 1) before installation, I disabled WLAN in the BIOS settings, 2) installation of Debian with before mentioned Netinstall CD was successful, updates via ethernet/dhcp connection are possible 3) after installation, switch on WLAN in the BIOS and install

Bug#618010: installation-reports: Debian 6.0 Netinstall - system freezes while detecting network hardware

Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2011-03-12 Machine: IBM ThinkPad T42 Processor: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model