On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:56:10AM -0400, mike wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: >> >>> I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing >>> debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the >>> debian installer does not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network >>> Interface Card.
... >>> 2. How can I get the NIC to be recognized? I've seen many >>> postings on the net saying to download Intel's e1000 driver and >>> install that. However, at first my install had no compiler tools - >>> based on doing a netinstall of 40r3 and proceeding with no NIC. Some >>> of the postings said to use the unstable 2.6.24... version, which had >>> the drivers included, but I can't seem to find where to get that. >>> So, I burned the first stable 40r3 DVD and installed from that, but >>> now I don't have development tools for the kernel / modules. I'm >>> currently burning the other DVDs, and am hoping then I'll have all >>> the resources I need to install the driver, but it seems that there >>> must be a much easier way to do this...! >>> >> >> the short answer is to stick a known good NIC in the box and get up >> and running then you can proceed to work on the onboard nic working. >> >> from my brief searching it appears (as of Aug 07) that there are no >> plans to put the code for that nic in the kernel tree, you have to >> build the driver from e1000.sourceforge.net. ... >> > When I tried etch, the hard drive and the ethernet card were not recognized. > I got the newest install CD for lenny and the harddrive was recognized, > but still no ethernet. I then put a e100 card in and the install > went fine. After the install and upgrades, I plugged the onboard card > back in and everything seems to be working fine, so somewhere it has > been added to the kernel. > My Dell 530 has a Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz. I am > running the i386 debian. sounds like the installer's kernel doesn't have the e1000 module but the installed kernel does. A
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