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Bug#702611: installation-reports: after 1st screen USB wireless keyboard+mouse ignored. Install impossible



Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.35-2

On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 23:08 +0000, Julian Hughes wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Using weekly wheezy installer i386 CD1 of 2013-03-04.
> Used dd to make bootable media on microSDHC
> Booted as expected to Debian greeter.
> 1st screen normal (choose Install or Graphical Install,  special
> options etc) Chose Install by using keyboard.
> Installer starts, presents Language Selection: no input
> accepted. Neither mouse nor keyboard input possible.
> Quit by PC hardware power button.
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> Boot method: CD image dd'd onto USB
> Image version:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso
> 2013-03-04 Date: March 8 2013
> 
> Machine: Aspire X3200
> product: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4050e
> 
> Info on wireless USB controller from lsusb:
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:0618 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
[...]
> The following info is from a pre-existing Debian on the same hardware.
> The keyboard+mouse work fine using the generic usbhid driver.
[...]

Linux 3.2 has a special HID driver for this device (hid-topseed) but it
wasn't included in the installer.  This should be fixed in the next
release candidate.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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