Bug 12440

Summary:	config options at end of install do not see eth0
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tony Blackwell <tablackwell>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Mageia4-final
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Screen shot showing the space M4-final missing eth0 eth0 is really there

Description Tony Blackwell 2014-01-26 13:15:47 CET

Description of problem:
Trying classical DVD x86_64 on my recent UEFI ASUS laptop.  Get to config within install after copying in the files.  The Network and Internet section fails to show eth0 at all; just an abnormal big slab of white space where it's been forever, before the only 2 options in this section of 'Network - wifi' and 'Proxies - not configured'

This wasn't missing in the betas.





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Tony Blackwell 2014-01-26 13:20:21 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => Mgeia4-final

Tony Blackwell 2014-01-26 13:20:43 CET

Whiteboard: Mgeia4-final => Mageia4-final

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-26 18:40:45 CET

Are you sure it hasn't just be renamed to something else?
In mageia4, on BIOS providing the needed information, the interface is renamed.
(see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:NetworkDeviceNameChange)

Can you also attach a screenshot?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => mageia, thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Colin Guthrie 2014-01-26 19:02:46 CET

Created attachment 4879 [details]
Screen shot showing the space

Thierry, I can confirm there is a mysterious blank space under the heading but before the first entry (circled in red).

Maybe I'm seeing things tho'. It's not *that* big IMO. I did have a quick chat about this on the qa-discuss list, but I'm not sure what else should be displayed here anyway...

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-26 19:29:58 CET

There's no "mysterious blank space".
Spacing is the same below every header...

Comment 4 Tony Blackwell 2014-01-27 00:20:53 CET

Created attachment 4883 [details]
M4-final missing eth0

Comment 5 Tony Blackwell 2014-01-27 00:21:46 CET

Created attachment 4884 [details]
eth0 is really there

Comment 6 Tony Blackwell 2014-01-27 00:27:44 CET

There _is_ a blank space on my machine; see first pic.  This is where eth0 (actually enp5s0 now) normally appears, to allow configuration during install.

The other pic shows the installed system can see and configure it later.  This pic was from M4 beta2 fully updated to current.  I don't recall if it could be seen initially on rebooting the newly installed system or whether it appeared later after some updates.

There seems to be a fault here if networking hardware is not seen and configurable during install.

Comment 7 Colin Guthrie 2014-01-27 00:39:45 CET

Is it perhaps just showing the first interface it finds? I don't think there is any actual change from before. I mean I don't think it lists out all the interfaces it finds - the code certainly doesn't look like it.

Thierry, any ideas? Could this just byproduct of using udev these days rather than manual probing?

I do feel like there is more space on this one than the others tho', but wouldn't worry about that specifically.

Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-27 06:25:46 CET

There never were more than these two options under "Network & Internet".
And there's no link between Installer summary & post-install Network Center.

The network connections is shown after "Network".
If you'd configured "ethX", it would display "ethernet".
If you'd configured "wifi", it would display "wifi".

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID