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November 07th, 2011 - 03:50 pm ET by Miles Fidelman | Report spam
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I find myself in an odd situation:

- I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of
different distributions on it over the past couple of years

- I recently installed OpenSuse with no problems, but then I tried to
reinstall Debian (Squeeze) off a CD-Rom, and the installer hangs when it
goes off to detect network hardware -- this is repeatable

- if I just let it boot the OpenSuse distro that's currently on the hard
drive, everything comes up fine - so the NIC, DHCP on our home LAN, and
so forth all are working

- so any thoughts on what might be going wrong, or how to track down
what's happening?

note: I'm pretty sure that I installed Squeeze on this box at some
point, but it could be that the last Debian install was Lenny - and
recent discussion suggests that some of the network plumbing has
changed, perhaps in ways that are incompatible with my network card.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Miles Fidelman

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In<fnord> practice, there is. Yogi Berra



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#6 Bob Proulx
November 08th, 2011 - 07:40 pm ET | Report spam

Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>Up to now, hardware autodetect has worked just fine - finding both NICs,
>>identifying them, and giving me a choice. Now it all just hangs. I
>>expect that I could escape out of the installer, and plug in some magic
>>incantations - but a little guidance is what I'm looking for. (I have a



Instead of escaping out I would simply start using the "expert"
install option to begin with. Then you would be able to pick and
choose as you went along.

Or you could try putting boot parameters on the installer's boot
command line such as:

interface=eth1

I am thinking your onboard NIC eth0 may be the problem and by avoiding
it you may avoid the hang. Maybe. Worth a try.

>>vague memory that there's a package of non-free NIC drivers floating
>>around that might need to be installed for the broadcom chip to work,
>>but not the Intel one.)



That process is documented here:

http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware

Not sure that is your problem though. It doesn't seem like it.

eth0 is a SiS900 Fast ethernet device - not configured
eth1 is an Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro100 (Rev 10) - it seems
to be picking up a DHCP address



Do you have a network cable plugged into both cards? Or just one of
them? Try with only one plugged into the machine. I would pick the
e100 and only have it active.

Also, if one is on your motherboard then I would try disabling it in
the BIOS and booting without it enabled.

(I guess one last thing to try would be to burn a newer version of
the Squeeze installer, but the one I tried was just fine for
building a couple of servers not too long ago.)



If all else fails then I would try the newest version of the installer.

Bob





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