On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, John Fisher wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time trying to install Debian, as the 2.4 boot > floppies I have seem to refuse to recognize both my onboard Intel > ethernet adapter and my D-Link DFE-530TX+ card. I've gotten much help > on Debian-Users, but so far been unsuccessful. Would this list also be > a good place to ask my problem in detail and the things I've tried so > far? I wasn't 100% sure, and didn't want to post off-topic if this was > reserved for other purposes.
Please, wrap the lines. The boot floppies have drivers for _some_ NICs compiled in, and there are no modules on the floppy. You need to transport modules to the machine via sneaker net, aka floppies. There are two options to use modules, and both actually work. Regrettably, I forget which is which. One deals with "foreign" modules, and I think for that you lay it out in the /lib/modules/... structure. The other (I don't have the menu to hand, and like you I've a victim of the way it doesn't work as I would like it to), wants modules all in /boot: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot-floppies]$ ls /misc/floppy/boot/ total 569 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 10444 Mar 19 16:05 3c507.o -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 13124 Mar 19 16:05 3c509.o -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 19888 Mar 19 16:05 3c515.o -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 35860 Mar 19 16:05 3c59x.o -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 8728 Mar 19 16:05 de600.o -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 16708 Mar 19 16:05 de620.o and so on, including -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 26576 Mar 19 16:05 eepro100.o There _are_ four floppy images of drivers, but I like to do things my way <bwg> and haven't looked those. -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
