Bug#324763: debian-installer: ABit m/b built-in NVIDIA CK804 ethernet card not recognized
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:12:22AM +0300, Ossama Khayat wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: normal
>
> The unofficial build of debian-installer provided for AMD64 (from
> cdimages.debian...) doesn't recognize my built-in NVIDIA Corporation
> CK804 Ethernet Controller, though if I download a nightly build it works
> just fine.
>
> P.S. The system I'm talking about is another one, not the one I'm using
> now to report this bug.
I have seen reports of this before. Apparently manually doing 'modprobe
forcedeth' from console 2 during the install usually works. For some
reason the ethernet port on some nvidia chipsets doesn't appear in the
pci listing and then as a result isn't auto detected, but the driver can
find it just fine if asked to load and look for the device.
The daily builds use a newer kernel, which may have a bug fix added to
deal with whatever caused the problem in 2.6.8.
Len Sorensen
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