Once again, a million thanks for all your help. Despite my continuing inability to install, everyone's help is really quite appreciated, and is truly making me feel I've made the right choice in distros to attempt.
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 10:50PM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John Fisher wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I'm having the exact same problem. I purchased and >> installed the DFE-530TX+ Driver, disabled the onboard via the BIOS, >> and tried with the 2.4 floppys. Again, no network option appears, > >Should work. Note the *should*. > >> nor is there an explicit 8139too driver option in net. > >You won't see the 8139too since it is built into the bf24 kernel. For >the built in modules you don't need to select them. (But once you >upgrade to the tuned performance kernel then it goes back to being a >module and you *do* have to select it there. Note that for later.) > >> But you know, I feel like I'm getting closer. I'm probably not, but >> I'm telling myself that to keep my spirits high. :-) > >Gosh, I think you are close. But at this point I don't know what to >suggest. The bootfloppies installer should be asking you for a system >name, defaulting to 'debian', choose something you like, and asking >you if it can DHCP or if you need a static address. If possible pick >DHCP and then it should follow from there. It will ask for a system name, but afterward informs me that no network card has been found, and recommends I enable my card via the configure modules section. Never actually gets to the point where I have the options you mention. >Double check your connections. Verify that you are getting LED >connectivity lights on your card or switch if you have LEDs. I think >you should be close right now. At this point it is bound to be >something very small that is causing the trouble. It is lighting up where it should be, so I'm really quite lost. Everything seems to be the way it should be, though I do admit that, coming from the Mac side of the fence, I never quite grasped IRQs and how they should work, but I'm assuming I can just let the BIOS handle them on Auto. (Which I mention only in grasping at straws in case someone can tell me different.) -------------------- John Kenneth Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
