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Hi Geert,
thank you very much for your detailed information. During holidays, I had some time to proceed working on the Debian installation. Downloading the debian package and installing it on the system according your advice worked well. Unfortunately, after installing the new kernel (dpkg -i), grub got a new configuration. And entries for Windows 7 got lost. Booting into Windows was no longer possible. But, I fixed it by running update-grub. With the new linux kernel, NIC is now configured. Network connection is therefore enabled/possible. System update worked fine by running 'aptitude full-upgrade'. In the web, I got a good list of SW package sources that I entered in /etc/apt/sources.list. During the next days, I will start to install all the software I need to run on the debian system. Thanks, again, for your very good help. I'm sure, it's still not too late to wish to you and to your Debian teammates a Happy New Year 2015. Best regards, Thomas On Tuesday 09 December 2014 06:40:54 am you wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:22:05PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 12:26 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > The i217 network chip is too new to work with the kernel in wheezy. > > [...] > > > Hello Thomas, > > > This is what I have done: > > * Search for a Debian package with newst kernel for Wheezy > > > This is what I would do: > > * On a (friends) computers with access to Internet > > * Go to https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64/download > > * Download the linux dot deb > > * Put it on a USB storage device > > * Take the USB storage device to the computer with the "new" NIC > > * Open a "terminal", so have the CLI, Command Line Interface > > * Be come "root", examples given, `sudo -i`, `su -` > > * change directory to where the linux dot deb is > > * execute the command `dpkg -i linux*.deb` > > * see how the new kernel gets installed > > * reboot the computer > > * the bootloader will shortly show a menu which kernel to use. > (most likely became the new kernel the default) > > * Report the milage at debian-boot mailinglist > > > > Groeten > Geert Stappers > Subscribed to the debian-boot ML |