Re: Debian does not have NIC driver
At 11:54 PM 2/13/2004, Anil Gupte wrote:
How do I compile a kernel if I have not yet installed the base system?
Also, will any *nix driver work? Intel's site only lists Unix drivers
(and I think Red Hat).
Anil, please realize I am so new to this just having installed Debian 3 two
days ago. However I was able with advice from the forum able to get through
this step.
I installed by d/l'g the mini iso, then made boot & root floppies from the
mini cd. Booted from the boot floppy, inserted the root floppy when asked,
somewhere in there partitioned and formatted the hd and then completed the
install from the cd. My nic, a netgear fs310tx wasn't in the list either.
But once I had a running system up I did an 'lspci' which showed the nic
and identified it as a lne100tx. Maybe that's just a close enough fit for
debian, maybe the difference is moot, beats me. When I have hardware
questions I generally ask the dude behind the counter. :)
Anyway, googling that device got me easily to linksys' website where they
recommended for rh linux the tulip driver, which is available on the debian
install screen. So I then configured the driver for the nic by selecting
tulip and now I can ssh into the box from my xp workstation. Can't do
anything else yet, but at least I can copy/paste for the next question. :)
hth,
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