Re: Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card not found
On 24 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Sure, but at that point, they're in an unsupported zone. Its actually
> very rare (in fact, I've never heard of any cases) where NIC devices
> aren't supported by one of the stock kernels. Anyhow, they can read
> about replacing the kernel in that section.
If you mean "stock kernel" as in the one compiled for installations (plus
allmodules), then you should hear about this:
These cards didn't work for me on a recent debian install. (using official
nonUS cd)
3c900C-TX
these are pretty new skinny Cyclone based cards made for OEM use
(had to d/l drivers from 3com's website, didn't work so well)
Netgear fa311 based
(vendor provides a 2.0.x module, natsemi module in 2.4.x works but
there isn't one in 2.2.x on the potato 2.2.r3 cd)
My wife says debian-user is full of reports about NIC problems, too much
traffic for me ;->
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