Thanks Wolodja for pointing to this site. The installer from Kenshi Muto worked for me. Now the final test it to make it work with VMware Server.
Here is the output of lspci -knn: lspci -knn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0044] (rev 02) Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel Kernel modules: intel-agp 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0046] (rev 02) Kernel modules: i915 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06) 00:16.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak KT Controller [8086:3b67] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: serial 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10ea] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: e1000e Kernel modules: e1000e 00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd Kernel modules: ehci-hcd 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:3b48] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3b4a] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd Kernel modules: ehci-hcd 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b07] (rev 06) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06) Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus Kernel modules: i2c-i801 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06) 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4239] (rev 35) Kernel driver in use: iwlagn Kernel modules: iwlagn ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2c62] (rev 02) ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d01] (rev 02) ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d10] (rev 02) ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d11] (rev 02) ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d12] (rev 02) ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d13] (rev 02) On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Wolodja Wentland < wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:32 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: > > When I try to install amd64 (Debian 5.05) on my new laptop, a Lenovo x201 > > tablet. I wish to use amd64 because I have 8GB for RAM and I think 64-bit > is > > now the way to go. The installer does not detect neither my wired or > wireless > > NIC. The installer gives me a list of network adapter drivers, I select > the > > the appropriate drivers but it keeps saying it cannot find the network > > hardware. > > > I tried Ubuntu amd64 and it was succesful but I would prefer to go with > Debian. > > I guess that you need a newer kernel that supports your NIC. It would > help if you could paste the output of "lspci -knn" from your Ubuntu > installation or from within a live cd like grml. You could also check > the hardware support situation at: > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ > > Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at: > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ > > which you might want to use in order to solve your problem. I would > strongly discourage installing testing just because your NIC is not > supported by Lenny's kernel. > > have fun > > Wolodja > -- > .''`. 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