Platform network interfaces should not be marked as unknown

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Here's a trivial patch that addresses the issue for me. It cleanly applies back to xenial (- the changelog of course).

This bug was fixed in the package netcfg - 1.142ubuntu3

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netcfg (1.142ubuntu3) artful; urgency=medium

  * Add description for non-PCI platform network interfaces. LP: #1697914

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:09:36 -0400

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netcfg into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/1.135ubuntu4.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netcfg into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/1.138ubuntu5.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-zesty to verification-done-zesty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-zesty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I rebuilt a zesty d-i against proposed & tested on a HiSilicon D05 board. The NICs were properly labelled "Ethernet Onboard". See attached screenshot.

For xenial, I tested d-i 20101020ubuntu451.12, which was built w/ netcfg 1.135ubuntu4.5, and the results look good there as well.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for netcfg has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package netcfg - 1.135ubuntu4.5

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netcfg (1.135ubuntu4.5) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Add description for non-PCI platform network interfaces. LP: #1697914

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:15:12 -0600