So, after a quit research with google, it seams like that Lennarts information is correct. The e1000 driver used by the Lenny installer seams like to old for you network card. I would suggest to build an own kernel for the d-i. Could be little bit tricky.
For more infos read on here -> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CustomKernel Mario On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:13 PM, franki asabere <franki.asab...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok. > > l saw the card as this "Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network > Connection (rev 02)" > > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Mario Kleinsasser < > mario.kleinsasser+deb...@gmail.com > <mario.kleinsasser%2bdeb...@gmail.com>>wrote: > >> Ok. When the first screen from the netinstaller is loaded, I mean its the >> language selection, you could press ALT+F2 to change to a terminal. >> After that press enter to activate the terminal an enter lspci. Theoretic >> this should print an output like that in my screenshot that I append here. >> (Its from a virtual machine). Maybe we could see the networkcard.... >> >> Mario >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:49 PM, franki asabere <franki.asab...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Yes please, l m using "netinst" >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Mario Kleinsasser < >>> mario.kleinsasser+deb...@gmail.com<mario.kleinsasser%2bdeb...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen < >>>> lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:56:15PM +0100, franki asabere wrote: >>>>> > Thank you very much for your quick response. >>>>> > >>>>> > Sorry l didt explain well. >>>>> > >>>>> > The server is Dell Optiplex 780 and the network card is on-board. The >>>>> debian >>>>> > cant detect the network card >>>>> >>>>> What does 'lspci -n | grep 0200' show on the box? That should get a >>>>> list of all ethernet devices. >>>> >>>> >>>> Are you trying to install with netinstaller iso or have you setup a >>>> system from full media? >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> If is of course very possible that the 2.6.26 kernel in Debian 5.0 does >>>>> not support the network card if the machine is less than 2 years old. >>>>> If so there isn't much choice other than use a newer kernel (2.6.32 is >>>>> in backports so it would be easy to install and use). >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Len Sorensen >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Mario >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> +++++++++++++++++++++ >>>> http://www.n0r1sk.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Systems and Network administrator >>> Mob:+233 243 804 126 >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> +++++++++++++++++++++ >> http://www.n0r1sk.com >> >> > > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Systems and Network administrator > Mob:+233 243 804 126 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- +++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.n0r1sk.com