On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:35:50AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > 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. > >
If you have a device, such as a USB stick that can be read and written by Linux and at least read by Windows, you can transfer the logs via this; sort of a sneaker-net that doesn't go anywhere. > > 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 you do this, look in /var/log/syslog and see if any eth lines appear. It may not be numbered eth0. > > 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. > > You could use the apt-zip package only use a CD or USB stick instead of a Zip (unless, of course, you have a zip disk drive). You can download individual packages with your windows box, put them on the stick, then install them on the debian box with dpkg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
