Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > I installed (or rather, am trying to install) Debian Sarge on an ASUS > 5800C laptop. I was using the beta-2 of debian-installer. > > The kernel installed (2.4.22-something) did not cope with the network > card. It requires the sk98lin driver, but trying to load this module > gave error messages. > > >From googling, I found that this network card was not fully supported > until 2.4.23. So I downloaded the 2.4.23-kernel .deb, transferred it to > the laptop on a CD, and installed it. Now I may configure the network > card and the network, using ifconfig and route.
That is very shady and I'm suprised it worked at all. Why don't you try a daily build of the installer, those use the 2.4.24 kernel. -- see shy jo
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