Array 5 liveCD - report (X11, ide issues; suspend success)

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:17:14PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:08:00PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> writes:
> > > It already does that; if it doesn't work for your hardware (with the
> > > latest daily live CD), then either the driver lacks the capability
> > > to detect linkbeat, or there is a bug.
> > 
> > Well, now I have the OS installed to the hard drive and I'm not
> > particularly eager to download the whole live CD again just to test
> > this.  I can tell you that the driver for the onboard Ethernet socket
> > appears to be 3c59x, and that "cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier" prints
> > "cat: <path>: Invalid argument", which would seem to point at a driver
> > bug; I am only guessing that that is the relevant sysfs file,
> > however.  This with linux-image-2.6.10-4-686.
> 
> I believe the installer uses "mii-diag".

The installer uses a custom program in netcfg called ethtool-lite, which
combines the functionality of mii-diag and ethtool. It just does a
couple of ioctls. Its log messages should still be around in
/var/log/installer/syslog.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]