Re: sk98lin doesn't work on EM64T

[Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu>]

Great !
It did not auto-detect the network card. But then I selected sk98lin from the 
list that popped up and hurray, now I'm online ! (seems the driver works!)

What is Ubuntu anyway ? Sofar it looks all like normal debian ...

Thanks,
Sebastian


On Friday 17 June 2005 12:03, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> I have similar hardware (a 64-bit-capable P4 on an Asus motherboard
> with a built-in Marvell NIC), and had lots of fun getting it installed
> a couple months back; I ended up installing Ubuntu (which had no
> problem with the card) and then using that to build a custom
> debian-installer image (which was something of a pain, though I'm glad
> we've at least migrated from boot-floppies!).
>
> Since I (being a packrat) still have the image around, I just put a
> copy up at http://people.debian.org/~ucko/em64t-sk98lin.iso .  I get
> an MD5 sum of 46399ad123a2cadeab088591e66de025 and an SHA1 sum of
> 88f650e79dea228dca245aaa5e77926528d11ba1.
>
> Once you've installed an initial system, you should then be able to
> install gcc 3.4 and build an appropriate custom kernel/module of your
> own.