Bug#372829: More info.
Hello,
First of all thank you for your quick response to my bug report.
> Please note that your lspci only lists ONE Ethernet interface card, not two.
Exact. That's strange because the one listed, Netgear FA311's National
Semiconductor Corporation DP83815, was not the one in use, which was the Gigabit
Marvell 88E1111 LAN controller embeded on the motherboard
Therefore, I've investigated more in depth about this. What I found is that,
contrary to what I wrote in the initial bug report, Ubuntu is unable to
detect/use the Netgear FA311's National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
controller.
Then I replaced the Netgear FA311 by an old LAN controller which was perfectly
detected and used on my former Debian box. Neither the Debian Installer nor
Ubuntu where able to detect/use it. Here is the corresponding lspci output :
0000:05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip
compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)
I also moved the NIC (either the Netgear FA311 or the Davicom based one) to
different PCI slots in case one of the slots has a problem. I got the same
result on all slots tested : the Debian Installer and Ubuntu failed to
detect/install them.
BUT my "old" Knoppix 3.9 is able to detect/install both cards : the Netgear
FA311 and the Davicom based one !
> > From an lsmod in Ubuntu I found that forcedeth was probably
> > the module I needed; but each attempt to load it from the Debian
> > Installer failed.
>
> Are you entirely sure that this driver is the one driving one of your
> interface cards? If so, which one of both?
Yes, the Gigabit Marvell 88E1111 LAN controller embeded on the motherboard.
I wonder why this NIC does not show up in an lspci output ?
Eventually, what I suspect is that the motherboard chipset, wich is an nVidia
nForce 4, is not well managed by some part of the Debian Installer. What do you
think about that ?
Thanks a lot,
Julius LAWSON DAKU.
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