On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:09:30AM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > I have a Marvell Ethernet card (on motherboard) model 88E8053. > It is not recognized by Etch (however the CD I tried to install from > is rather old +- 1 year). > (note: under Fedora 6 it is recognized and works fine with driver sky2) > > What is the current situation / support about Marvell 88E8053 under > Etch ? > As my Etch CD is rather old do I need to burn a new one ? > If so where can I check which hardware is supported in .iso Etch to avoid > unecessary download ? > Do I need to make some 'home-computing' like download driver and/or > source (via a supported Ethernet card) card to build my own module..etc.. ?
You need the sky2 module. The Etch (2.6.18) module should work well enough to get a newer kernel and compile it. To get 2.6.18 in Etch, you will need a newer install disk. Yesterday's daily build definitely has sky2. You will need to obtain a 2.6.21-rc1 kernel or better (or at least a newish kernel + sky2.c and sky2.h version 1.13) because there are some serious bugs in earlier versons. Use make-kpkg (in package kernel-package) to build your kernel and you'll stay inside the Debian package management system. -- Rob Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done.
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