On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository > really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the > rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the > driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install > linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but I have to boot into another OS and keep coming > back to Debian only to find that every package I have downloaded needs some > dependencies which I have to go back and download again. > > Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without having to > burn many CDs of Debian?
You didn't tell us which ASUS motherboard you are using. It makes a difference. I had trouble like this with an ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ, which has an AMD64 processor. To get the ethernet up to permit installation I just plugged an old, well-supported ethernet card into one of my PCI slots. That enabled me to install from a sarge netinstall disk that had been jiggered to contain a 2.6.12 kernel. As far as I know, it is still not recognisong the onboard ethernet. One of these days it probably will, and then I'll suddenly have to figure out which is which -- or unplug the card. But I still couldn't get a lot of stuff working -- trouble with RAID, LVM, and X -- so I switched to an etch install disk. Now everything works except for onboard ethernet, video and sound. Haven't tried to plug in a speaker yet, the onboard nvidia chip seems to be too new for xorg (not recognised, doesn't even work as VGA or VESA), and I haven't had time to try the proprietary nvidia drivers yet. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
