Re: howto move from yellow dog -> debian

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamalprasad@verizon.net>]

    "Russell" == Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com> writes:

    Russell> Thanks for taking an interest.  Much appreciated.

    Russell> eth0: MACE at 00:05:02:76:a5:13, chip revision 25.64
    Russell> eth1: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0xd1465000,
    Russell> 08:00:2B:C5:A1:92, IRQ 29.

    Russell> Any voodoo I can do from the command line to get these
    Russell> cards recognized once I've successfully booted the
    Russell> install kernel?

I don't know this hardware very well, but I believe you are looking
for either the 'tulip' or 'de4x5' drivers (quick Google search). Your
best bet would be to look at the YDL dmesg output to see what driver
is good for you card (presumably this works on YDL?). Then switch to a
virtual console in d-i at some point (after hardware detection) and
try doing

insmod <driver>

to see if it comes up. There might be an easier way to try this in the
expert- installer. 

Unfortunately I can't tell you right now if these drivers are in the
d-i kernel (have to run to work), they certainly are in the
prepackaged kernels (for x86 anyway :-). 

I've Cc'ed debian-powerpc, perhaps some one can tell you right away.

Best regards,
Shyamal