more PCMCIA network ugliness

[Matt Price]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:51:12PM -0400, Alex Janssen wrote:
> Matt Price said the following on 10/24/2005 04:20 PM:
> 
>     On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:13:09AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> 
>         I've justi nstalled ubuntu on a laptop (IBM thinkpad 600E) -- this is
>         a lightweight system and will eventuallyrun xfce, but for now I've got
>         the default ubuntu-desktop up.  Installation went fine exceptthatthe
>         network simply won't configure. I have tried 2 ethernet cards (an IBM
>         Etherjet 10/100, and a 3Com 10mbit ).  I've used the latter before
>         with no problems on another laptop.  I've also tried using a d-link
>         air-plus DWL-650+ WiFi card .
> 
> 
> 
>     still working on this... I've verified that both the ethernet cards
>     work perfectly on this machine under knoppix; one of them (the 3com)
>     is also detected perfectly by the stock debian-installer as used in
>     the weekly etch install cd's (the other has the same issue as in
>     ubuntu -- dhclient doesn't recognize the incoming dhcpoffer & so
>     fails; manual cpnfiguration succeeds but most packets are lost).
> 
>     so I think this is a bug in the ubuntu version of the
>     installer, also maybe in the vanilla debian version.  But I'm not sure
>     how to diagnose further, nor exactly where to report this if this is a
>     bug.  So I guess my questions:
> 
>     - anyone know hwere to report a bug on the installation process?
>     - anyone know how to (a) figure out what tr5icks knoppix uses to
>     autoconfigure the network, and somehow import those to a ubuntu
>     system; or (b) install knoppix and move to ubuntu?
> 
>     thanks much,
> 
>     matt
> 
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> 
> I know this is a wild hair idea, but did you check the md5 sums on the iso
> image after downloading.  Just guessing now.

these are jigdo'd images, so jigdo checks the sums for me I think.  I
recheck after burning, and they all look good so far.  bummer.

matt

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