On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:31:59AM -0600, John and Holly Klug wrote: > On my machine, my NIC is not recognized by the boot floppies CD image. > > When I try to manually install it per SysKonnect directions I get a > device or resource busy message. > > lspci says it is from Galileo Technology Ltd. The support from > Syskonnect says it is a Marvell Yukon chipset. I found a patch for this > in bug report #283191, and massaged /usr/share/misc/pci.ids, so at least > lspci works now. > > http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/vanilla-3.0.23-mini.iso > > My NIC is SMC 9452TX Gigabyte, which uses driver sk98lin.o according to > SMC. The kernel finds the board, but says it is an unknown device. > > I found this reference that says that if the board is recognized by the > kernel, you just need to execute ifconfig. My board must not be recognized. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/02/msg01662.html > > How can I get the kernel to recognize my Marvell Yukon ethernet board or > install the driver so I can use the boot floppies? Don't expect much support on the old debian installation programm called "boot-floppies". If it is not yet fixed in release candidate two, rc2, of debian-installer[1], then have a close at discover[2]. Cheers Geert Stappers [1] http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ [2] http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/discover
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