On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:20, Kv237 wrote: > Hello, > > I have about 18 years of experience as a Linux and Unix user and system > administrator, but after an attempted upgrade about five weeks ago with > Ubuntu to their Dapper Drake version i ran into serious problems and the > installation essentially crashed. > > I have therefore decided to return to the Debian distribution, since this > distribution is very stable in my experience. I have decided to try out the > AMD64 distribution of Sarge, despite the fact that this version is only in > testing at the moment. The installation image work a lot better than any > other Debian or Ubuntu installation I have tried out on my computer. > > My problem is that the network drivers don't support my ethernet hardware. > My moterboard is an ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe. The eterhet adapters I have > attempted to use is a Marwell 88E81111 Gigabit Lan PHY included on the > motherboard, and a D-link DFE-530TX. > > I have attempted to use the forcedeth driver explicitly, but the version > delivered with the ISO don't recognize my hardware. > > I have tryed to use the Linux drivers delivered with the DFE-530TX, but > they are delivered as source code and the ISO don't contain the development > environment. I have attempted to install the drivers from a CD with apt, > but the ISO image don't have apt. > > I have attempted to install the drivers for the Maxell HW with dpkg, but > the ISO don,t have dpkg either. > > I attempted to install dpkg into ram memory with the start a shell option > in the install image, but dpkg is as far as I could find out only available > as a .deb file which requires dpkg in order to install. > > I attempted to find an old ethernet adapter today, in order to install the > AMD64 port of Sarge. But the only card I could find was a Zonet ZEN3200 > adapter. This adapter requires the driver rt18139.o, and that was not > available in the ../kernel/drivers/net directory. And before you ask, I did > look for a .ko extension as well. > > Currently I have no idea about how I could install Debian AMD64 without > help with the drivers and with the current kernel image, i.e. Linux > 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic. > > Could somebody help me by creating a new install image, with the kernel > replaced with the latest stable kernel and the latest forcedeth drivers > replacing the versions in the current image. I will be happy to try it out, > and will of cause report any problems to this mail list. > > I will scan this mail list for answers. Thank you in advance for any help > provided. > > With my best regards, > > Sören Jonsson, Sweden > MSc in Computer Science That DFE card should be using the via-rhine driver which is definitely available in the 2.6.8 install kernel or you can try http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ for a backported install image for amd64 with a 2.6.16 kernel to try and use the onboard card. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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