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Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963



Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not
>> > > > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware

>> lspci shows this:
>>
>> 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller
>> (rev 01)
>
> That does not seem to be a wireless LAN controller; it looks like the
> [14e4:4315] USB controller to me.
>
> What output do you get from
>
> lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|ether|wire|lan'

The list of supported PCI devices can be found at [1]. The current page
lists 2.6.26, but you can have the list for older older kernel in the wiki
page history (Click on the "Info" link).
...Device "14e4:4315" doesn't seems supported.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DeviceDatabase/PCI


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