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Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB



> Am Die, den 27.01.2004 schrieb Dermot Bradley um 05:07:
>
> Can you send me the output of "lspci" and "lspci -n". So I can see what
> PCI ID you card has.

As the debian-installer CD doesn't seem to have lspci on it I can't
provide this (its a brand new machine that has never run Linux before).

> AFAIK the d-i policy is to be based on herbert's official kernel-image.
> So a d-i patched kernel is not an option. At the end of the installation
> process d-i installs a kernel-image deb. This could lead to an
> unbootable kernel if the d-i kernel was specially patched.
> Is there any special reason why this patch is not included upstream?
> IMHO this would be the best solution.

Support for this hardware (and other motherboards with similar hardware)
appears to have been put into 2.4.25-pre6 (see
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/25-pre6/drivers/pci/pci.ids). So unless
either the debian-installer CD moves to 2.4.25-pre6/2.4.25 soon or else
kernel patches are applied to whatever kernel the debian-installer uses
then there's no way to get this ethernet going (and therefore no way for
me to get this machine usable).

Although I'm a long time Debian user (since 1993) and an ex-Debian
developer unless I can get something going shortly I may have to consider
another distribution for this PC :-(




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