Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard

[Andrew Cady <d@jerkface.net>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian
> repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would
> like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet
> card is sis190, for which the driver is not present in the kernel
> 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but
> I have to boot into another OS and keep coming back to Debian only
> to find that every package I have downloaded needs some dependencies
> which I have to go back and download again.
> 
> Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without
> having to burn many CDs of Debian?

First of all, make sure your driver is in 2.6.15 but not 2.6.8.  If so,
here are all the dependences for kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 which is the
latest kernel in my cache:

  coreutils
  cpio
  cramfsprogs
  dash
  fileutils
  initrd-tools
  libacl1
  libattr1
  libc6
  libncurses5
  libselinux1
  libsepol1
  libslang2
  libuuid1
  lsb-base
  module-init-tools
  ncurses-bin
  sed
  util-linux
  zlib1g