Francois wrote: > The network hardware detection does not detect any ethernet card (though > I've got one). I'm then asked by d-i to select a card type from a menu. > I select sungem (Benjamin Herrenschmidt has confirmed me that all recent > Apple machines have a sungem), but d-i brings me back to the card > selection menu. This looks like two separate bugs, we have a d-i bug that it does not know what module to load for your ethernet card, and unforutnatly also apparently a kernel bug in that it does not work with your ethernet card. > lspci is not available, but here is an extract from /proc/pci (I don't > copy everything, as I have no way to cut and paste from the console to > my mailer ;o/ ): > > ------ > ~ # cat /proc/pci > <snip/> > Bus 3, device 15, function 0: > Ethernet controller: PCI device 106b:0051 (Apple Computer Inc.) (rev 0). > IRQ 40 > Master Capable. Latency=16. Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=64. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80400000 [0x805fffff] > <snip/> > ------- What we really need is the line from /proc/bus/pci/devices that ends in "sungem" after you've loaded the module. Without this info we don't have enough data to add to the hardware detection database. > If I try ifconfig eth0 though I get > ------- > /usr/bin # ifconfig eth0 > ifconfig: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > ------- Is there anything interesting in dmesg at this point? -- see shy jo
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