Thanks to those of you who sent ideas on solving this problem. I only tried one idea - get the daily unstable / testing build. I downloaded the amd64-netinst build from yesterday, Apr 9, and it recognized the NIC with no problem. I still have some things to get configured, but it could talk to the Net no problem. Apparently the current stable build just doesn't have the drivers for the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card included... Dan
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >> >> A couple questions: >> >> 1. Should I be using i386 or amd64 for this machine, to take best >> advantage of the 4 cores and the 8 Gb of RAM I have in the machine? >> > > probably amd64, though it's not completely "there" yet, unless you > specifically need something from i386, I don't see any reason *not* to > go to amd64. and it saves you from converting later... > > >> >> 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. If you have access to > another machine of the same archictecture, you can build the module > there, stick it on a disk and then switch to a VT during install and > insert the module from there. Might work. > > > A > 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. -mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
