PowerPC Alternernate image cannot find network interfaces

[Lars Noodén]

The installation process is unable to find the network interfaces, earlier versions could. The error presented is:

"Configure the network
No network interfaces detected
No network interfaces were found. The installation system was unable to find a network device.

You may need to load a specific module for your card, if you have one. For this, go back to the network hardware detection step. "

From lshw:

id: network
description: Ethernet interface
product: UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM)
vendor: Apple Inc.
physical id: f
bus info: pci@0002:20:0f.0
logical name: eth0
version: 80
serial: 00:0a:95:a0:1c:a0
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration:
autonegotiation = on
broadcast = yes
driver = sungem
driverversion = 1.0
duplex = full
ip = 192.168.1.33
latency = 16
link = yes
maxlatency = 64
mingnt = 64
multicast = yes
port = MII
speed = 100Mbit/s
resources:
irq : 41
memory : f5200000-f53fffff
memory : f5100000-f51fffff

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Same error on different hardware.. Excerpt from lshw:

id: network
description: Ethernet interface
product: UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM)
vendor: Apple Inc.
physical id: f
bus info: pci@0002:24:0f.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:0a:95:7e:89:a0
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration:
autonegotiation = on
broadcast = yes
driver = sungem
driverversion = 1.0
duplex = full
ip = 192.168.1.32
latency = 16
link = yes
maxlatency = 64
mingnt = 64
multicast = yes
port = MII
speed = 100Mbit/s
resources:
irq : 41
memory : f5200000-f53fffff
memory : f5100000-f51fffff

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/960502

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Apparently fixed in 20120322.3/precise-alternate-powerpc.iso