Bug 5889

Summary:	boot.iso can't use the ethernet (RTL8111/8168B) or wifi (AR9285)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	William Kenney <wilcal.int>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-images	CVE:
Status comment:

Description William Kenney 2012-05-13 19:12:24 CEST

Mageia 2 RC

I've tried both the 32 & 64 bit boot.iso/boot-nonfree.iso on a
USB stick on two different 64-bit computers and for some reason
they do not see the network and cannot proceed. A DVD install
on these machines is fine.

I'm still poke'n at this thing to try and define it better.

Comment 1 William Kenney 2012-05-13 23:05:36 CEST

Just for yuks I created another Mageia 1, 64-bit,
boot.iso USB stick and tried it on the same system
and it works ( gets on the LAN ) just fine.

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-14 17:06:05 CEST

what's your ethernet card ?

lscpidrake -v in a mageia install if you can

Summary: USB boot.iso/boot-nonfree.iso, 32&64bit, do not work on 64-bit computers => boot.iso can't cannot to network

Comment 3 William Kenney 2012-05-14 22:59:52 CEST

(In reply to comment #2)
> what's your ethernet card ?

Ok, I have two 64-bit test platforms
They are:

SandyBridge - Video editing machine
-----------------------------------
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz overclocked to 3.8GHz LGA 1155 95W
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel MoBo
GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI GeForce GT 440 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express 1Gbit Ethernet
There is no WiFi adapter on this platform

Dell Vostro 1015 Laptop
-----------------------
Celeron  925  2.3Ghz  64-bit  1MB L2 cache  800Mhz FSB  45nm
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express 1Gbit Ethernet
Atheros AR9285 WiFi adapter


Both of these machines run Mageia 1 just fine.
64-bit Mageia on the SandyBridge machine
32-bit Mageia on the Vostro machine.
There are no network issues with either machine.
The Vostro WiFi works just fine.

Using Mageia 2 RC 64-bit KDE Live-CD this disk
boots and runs just fine on both machines.
Also there are no issues with the Ethernet
connection on both and the WiFi works just
fine on the Vostro.

Comment 4 William Kenney 2012-05-14 23:08:44 CEST

Also note that the Mageia 1 boot.iso 64-bit
works just fine on both of these machines.

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-15 00:04:47 CEST

ok strange since there is rtlwifi in buildrequire

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb
Summary: boot.iso can't cannot to network => boot.iso can't use the ethernet (RTL8111/8168B) or wifi (AR9285)
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-images

Comment 6 William Kenney 2012-05-17 21:34:22 CEST

Tried latest update boot.iso, 16May2012,
and this problem still is there. I tried
to connect to anything and still can't.

Thanks for the hard work.

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2012-05-17 21:54:44 CEST

You should try the one from today which includes missing modules.order and modules.builtin files, which may help this issue

Comment 8 William Kenney 2012-05-18 02:01:58 CEST

Using the iso files published on 17 May 2012.

I can confirm that the boot.iso and boot-nonfree.iso
images when applied to a USB stick do in fact now
connect to my LAN network. In the case of my laptop
they work with both the RJ-45 and WiFi connections.

Do note that there are times when the process involves
sometimes many minutes of waiting where nothing seems
to be happening. This may in fact be discouraging
to a user who may think that things have hung. The
boot-nonfree.iso seems to take at least 2x the number
of minutes to get going then the boot.iso does.

This bugs status is changed to resolved/fixed.

Many thanks for the help.

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