On 13 Jan 2004, Arnel Espanola uttered the following: > Did anyone successfully install Debian (Woody) on Acer Laptop Yep. Mine (a TravelMate 803 LMi6) is currently running un GNU/Linux Debian SID. > (specifically 730S Travelmate)? It's unable to detect the built-in > ethernet interface on the laptop. Also, I have problem running the X Indeed. The built-in ethernet interface is a Broadcom bcm4400 chipset: ,----[ lspci -v | grep Broadcom ] | 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01) | Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 001f | Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 | Memory at d0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] | Capabilities: <available only to root> `---- Unfortunately, this chipset *must* be installed manually and compiled for your kernel: ,----[ dpkg -s bcm4400-source ] | Package: bcm4400-source | Status: install ok installed | Priority: extra | Section: net | Installed-Size: 72 | Maintainer: martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> | Version: 3.0.7-2 | Depends: module-assistant | Recommends: dpkg-dev, kernel-package, debhelper (>= 4), debconf-utils | Description: module source for Broadcom's bcm4400 ethernet driver | This package provides the source code for the bcm4400 module provided | by Broadcom. You will need make-kpkg from kernel-package to be able to | compile modules usable with a Debian kernel. | . | Note that the Linux kernel >= 2.4.22 includes the Broadcom 4400 driver. You | may want to consider using the kernel driver instead. `---- When done, just load the module as usual. zeDek -- Hito no kokoro wa kawareru mono
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