Len, Gudjon On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:37 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:15:22PM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > > > > Network card: Intel 82566DM Gigabit Adapter, integrated > > Well looking at the 2.6.18 source code from etch for the kernel I see > stuff like: > ../rr1/sandbox/linux-2.6/linux-2.6-2.6.18.dfsg.1/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c: e1000_set_pci_ex_no_snoop(hw, PCI_EX_82566_SNOOP_ALL); > so yes I think the e1000 driver should work on that chip. > > The onboard video if you are using it, is a GMA3100 which from what I > can determine requires Xorg 1.3 or higher and 2.6.22 kernel or higher. > > So that means you have to use either Etch with a backported kernel, or > testing (or unstable) to get 2.6.22 kernel and new xorg if you want > graphics on the built in video. You don't need a backport of the kernel packages. They are stand alone pieces of software that nothing depends upon and depend on nothing themselves (in the packaging sense; I know the system needs a kernel to run). You can just down load the kernel packages of your choice. I had a problem with the kernel in lenny not supporting the Nikon D40 DSLR I've just got. Loads of stuff on the Ubuntu forums because they shipped with a version of the kernel that was "broken". Any way I just installed the sid kernel set and everything just worked. Here are the packages I got from sid: linux-headers-2.6.23-1-amd64 2.6.23-2 linux-headers-2.6.23-1-common 2.6.23-2 linux-image-2.6.23-1-amd64 2.6.23-2 linux-kbuild-2.6.23 2.6.23-1 Hope this helps Steve -- Steve Dobson If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women. -- Mort Sahl
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