[Bug 1616400] Re: Lubuntu's alternate i386 installer cannot connect to a network

[Ian Bruntlett]

This bug affects me, too.

The iso I tested was the 20160824 spin of 32-bit Lubuntu, here are the
details:-

Output from md5sum, running on the iso I installed with:-
675238603d60670aa681f34e3dfd1ad6  yakkety-alternate-i386.iso

I am using a Samsung NC10 Netbook (32-bit Intel Atom CPU, 2 GiB RAM,
320GB hard drive), further hardware details can be found here:-
https://gist.github.com/21b61903871ee685fc79

I managed to install the O.S. by selecting "Continue" on the red screen
complaining about not seeing network interfaces. However, after booting
the installed system, I was unable to access the Internet either by
cable or by Wi-Fi (however, the networking applet could see the Wi-Fi
networks nearby to me).

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Title:
  Lubuntu's alternate i386 installer cannot connect to a network

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Running Lubuntu's Yakkety alternate i386 beta1 installer fails.

  I arrive at a red screen with the text: "No network interfaces were
  found ..."

  This is in a Toshiba laptop, that I have used for testing since 2013,
  and it works with the corresponding current Lubuntu desktop iso files.
  I expect the wired ethernet to work with the alternate iso file like
  it worked, when I tested with Yakkety alternate i386 alpha 2.

  http://www.toshiba.se/laptops/satellite-pro/c850/satellite-
  pro-c850-19w/

  ctrl + alt + F4 shows the following log text:

  -----
  main-menu: menu item 'ethdetect' selected
  net/hw-detect.hotplug: detected hotpluggable network interface lo
  check-missing-firmware ... 
  ...
  check-missing-firmware: no missing firmware in loaded kernwel modules
  main-menu: (process 16031) : modeprobe: invalid option  -- 'l'
  main-menu: DEBUG: resolver (libgcc1): package doesnotä exist (ignored)
  ...
  main-menu: INFO: Menu item 'netcfg' selected
  netcfg: INFO: Starting netcfg v.1.138ubuntu1
  netcfg: WARNING: **: Couldno't read Wpasupplicant pid file, not trying to kill.
  netcfg: INFO: Could not find valid BOOTIF= entry in /proc/cmdline
  -----

  It works to continue the installation without network. The installed
  system boots, but the installed system fails to connect to the
  internet. I have not tried to fix it, just noticed that ethernet does
  not work 'out of the box' as it should in the installed system.

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