percy tiglao([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get > Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it > did not autodetect my ethernet card. It is a 82562V-2 integrated card, > at least according to the Windows Vista devise manager. > > Anyway, I do have a very basic system up and running. No internet > support or anything, so I can really only do stuff from the Windows > side of my system right now. I'm not sure how I can get logs of what I > do to my email from Debian so I'm sorry about the lack of the logs. > I'll do my best to describe the error messages however. > > As I stated earlier, the installer did not detect the network card. I > tried loading the "e1000" module inside the installation program which > according to intel should be the module I need: > http://downloadmirror.intel.com/9180/ENG/README.txt > > The installer wouldn't acccept it, it would just loop back to the > "select module" screen. I tried to "modprobe e1000" manually during > the installation, but that didn't work either. No error messages come > up. > > After that, the rest of the system installed without any hassle, but > obviously I cannot connect to the internet right now without any > network card, so I don't have anything installed aside from whatever > is on the base netinstall on Lenny. > > I've tried to "modprobe e1000" after the installation, and there seems > to be no errors that happen. I use dmesg and aside from the loading > message from e1000, no other messages pop up. I've also added "iface > eth0 inet dhcp" into my /etc/network/interfaces file, and tried to do > "ifup eth0", but that fails with the message: 'Device "eth0" does not > exist' > > Thank you for reading this message. I'd really like to get Debian up > and running as soon as possible so please help. As an aside, all error > messages and other logs are from memory + google. So they may not be > 100% correct but they're the best I got right now.
Take a look at the /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file. I had a problem with a laptop, because of a lot of testing I was doing, that thought the ethernet card was eth6. So ifup eth0 didn't work but ifup eth6 did. I repaired that file and now so that eth0 was the only ethernet interface and all is well. HTH=Hope This Helps, YMMV=Your Mileage May Vary, HAND=Have A Nice Day Wayne -- Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
