On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:36:57PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > I got the i386 stable.. which I think is sarge? (i'm not caught up on the > lingo yet :P) Here's the url I used: > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r4/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso > Etch will be release Any Day Now(TM), so you probably want to use that instead. The kernel in Sarge is quite old. Etch has a much more current kernel with more up to date drivers.
> Anyways, I still have Gentoo on that machine, and lspci just tells me that > it's an Intel 1000Gigabit Ethernet Pro. I'm not at the machine now to copy > it verbatim, but it uses the e1000 driver in the kernel. The install cd has > that module in the list of modules for network cards, but the installer says > it can't find the card. I can try to tinker with it when I get home in > about 20 minutes. With my kind of luck, I prolly just need to modprobe it > instead of rely on the installer to find it >.> I am guessing that trying Etch will solve the problem. If not, you will likely need to provide the verbatim output of lspci. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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