Bug#512546: Ethernet card not found
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:24:46AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> this problem is also occurring on Dell Optiplex 780 machines,
> the PCI ID of the network card is 8086:10de.
>
> I tried installing using this netboot image:
> http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/
> which has the date stamp '20090123lenny7' in boot-screens/f1.txt.
>
> It would be helpful to know whether the kernel team intends to
> address this issue, I understand that you are always quite busy.
I highly doubt it. If squeeze is in fact coming out this year (so next
4 months), then it seems pointless to try and do a lenny'n'half release
with a newer kernel at this point. But I am just a user, what do I
know. :)
> It may be helpful to retitle this bug:
> igb: missing support for more Intel 82576 variants
Lenny's kernel is simply too old to support those new intel variants.
I have resorted to installing squeeze on newer machines with new intel
network chips (all the new Lenovo desktops we get at work require that).
The other option is to grab the 2.6.32 kernel from lenny backports.
That makes it work. Of course you have to install without networking
first, or use a temporary add in network card that is supported in the
mean time.
--
Len SOrensen
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