Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I have tried to install this week's build of lenny on a Dell 'Optiplex GX1' which has I believe, a custom motherboard made by Dell. This mobo has onboard ethernet. I also have two PCI ethernet cards which are connect via a PCI-to-ISA bridge.
When I tried to install lenny I was unable to configure the network at all. This is because the installer could not install a driver for the onboard nic (it said 'could not detect any network card, but also suggested to try the driver for a National Semiconductor 8390, which didn't work). It also failed to detect the PCI cards. When I tried the same thing using stable 'etch', it managed to load a driver for the onboard card, which it detected as a National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter). However the network still didn't work. But the installer also detected the PCI cards, which did work to get the network up and running. I think the onboard network adapter may be broken. However there seem to be two failures of the lenny installer here, where the etch installer succeeded: the failure to correctly identify the onboard card, and the failure to detect at all the PCI cards. Perhaps these are due to support for 'obsolete' hardware being removed from the installer? In any case perhaps someone can find out why these happened by seeing the difference in behaviour from etch, and maybe fix it if it's considered important. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18jack1 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]