I have found a workaround. It seems that while the Squeeze installer cannot seem to utilize the RTL8111, the resulting installation does not have the problem.
I executed the following steps: 1) Installed an old 10/100 PCI network card I had lying around 2) Booted from netinstall CD: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-squee ze-di-beta2-amd64-netinst.iso 3) Ignored requests for "rtl8168d-1.fw" 4) Selected the old network card for use during installation 5) After installation and reboot both cards were fully functional immediately, no non-free sources were required 6) Removed old 10/100 card from my system and "hey presto" I have a Squeeze install. Here is the relevant line from "lspci -knn" output of the final setup: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7642] Kernel driver in use: r8169 I would be willing to boot the install CD and do any diagnostic tests that may help the developers track this one down. Regards, Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
