Bug 12304 - Installer fails to probe NIC
Summary: Installer fails to probe NIC
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-06-15 15:50 UTC by Wade Minter
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-06-15 21:41:13 UTC
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Description Wade Minter 2000-06-15 15:50:04 UTC 
Running on an old IBM P100, 80MB RAM, 3c509 ISA NIC.

The installer didn't probe for the NIC at all, leading to no network setup.

Running "modprobe 3c509" post-install got the NIC driver working.
Comment 1 Wade Minter 2000-06-15 15:59:57 UTC 
Additional note - this was during a Custom install.
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2000-06-15 21:41:11 UTC 
The installer does no ISA card probing.

If you enter

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at the boot prompt then you should be prompted for ISA type cards.
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