-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nu-Genoa wrote: > Good Morning, > > I am just wondering if anyone has had trouble installing Debian > (sarge) onto a HP a1540n machine. I am looking for other users that > have this system or similiar to it and have Debian ( or any distro of > linux ) installed and fully operational. > > The main and first problem I ran into was the onboard ethernet not > being found. According to HP's website it is listed as a 10/100 > Marvell 88EC031. Under windows it says it is a nVidia onboard lan card > but I am not sure if it has to do with the chipset and all. It has the > nForce 430/410 drivers installed. When trying to configure the card in > the install it can't be automatically found so someone told me to use > the forcedeth drivers but they require an IRQ and under WinXP, the lan > doesn't have an IRQ. Any ideas? I am thinking about skipping this part > and coming back but I would rather fix it during the install to have > inet to use apt power. > > Also, how good is debian in SATA support? I heard it isn't great and > that I might run into trouble there as well.
Christopher, I can't answer your question about the network card, but I can tell you that Debian (etch and I assume sarge) has no trouble with SATA. It's treated as a SCSI drive, so instead of being hda, it's sda, but other than that, it works the same. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF3FcliXBCVWpc5J4RAmQaAJ9wkM99vAFQ/K6k31QFYpZz542/XACeIRs+ 45h30TDYYIogtPtjeDPHf5Q= =QWyu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
