On September 1, 2005 01:21 am, Xiaozheng Ma wrote: > Dear All, > > I am installing AMD64 to my new computer, which has Abit ax8 > motherboard. The installer could not find network device (or configed > my network) with auto-detect DHCP option. After I manually set the > network ip etc, It still couldn't work. The ax8 has an integrated > network card (i believe it is Gigabit LAN) > http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=2 >15 > > By default, the installer also has problem recognizing my PCI-Express > video card. but this is a less conncern to me. > > Has anyone installed AMD64 successfully on the ax8? Please share your > experience. Thank you very much. > > Xiaozheng Hi Xiaozheng, I have a Abit KV8 Pro with I think the same netcard builtin and it would not recognize it either. Try using the CTRL + ALT +F2 keys at the same time to switch to the second virtual terminal then use modprobe via-velocity to load the module for the card then try to set your IP address. Of course you would use CTRL + ALT +F1 keys at the same time to switch back to the installer terminal. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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