Re: Newbie problems galore
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Kent West wrote:
David A. Cobb wrote:
First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is
2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive
has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the
meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I can't access my NIC, so all
that stuff requires rebooting into Windows.
You might be able to get your network working, in which case you won't
need to reboot into Windows.
Run "lspci" to see what type of Ethernet device you have, then run
"modprobe" to install the correct driver for it. You might then need
to modify /etc/network/interfaces (see "man interfaces" for examples)
and restart networking (/etc/init.d/networking stop &&
/etc/init.d/networking start).
PASTING ALL THE PROBABLY-RELEVANT
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0068 (rev a3)
(prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Micro-star International Co Ltd: Unknown device 5700
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [44] #0a [2080]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0066
(rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-star International Co Ltd: Unknown device 570c
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at dd001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at d000 [size=8]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device
006a (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-star International Co Ltd: Unknown device 5700
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
Memory at dd002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
...
01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev
15) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
01:07.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem
Subsystem: Risq Modular Systems, Inc.: Unknown device 044e
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
I/O ports at c400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2
I can't find anything at debian.org that looks likely -- the "nforce"
driver from nVidia is the right one but I can't seem to match my distro.
However, I found that "TUN" is generic enough to allow the installation
to see the network.
Vidio . . . well, that's another matter, and I'll worry about it later.
I'll try to insmod vesa later on.
So, my first question: given the kernel images on
$MIRROR/Debian/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.26-i386, how do I change my
kernel?
Once you have networking working, just "apt-get install
kernel-image-2.4.26-i386" (although I suspect you really want the i686
variant instead of i386).
K6, actually.
I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze.
If your Windows system is on FAT32 (not NTFS), no problem. If it is on
NTFS, you'll need to create a "shared" FAT32 partition.
To mount a FAT32 partition, you can do something similar to:
mount /dev/hda1 /home/superbskt/MyWinFiles
(assuming you've created a "MyWinFiles" directory in your home
directory, and assuming Windows is on /dev/hda1).
You can modify /etc/fstab to do this for you automatically if you want.
Yeah. I cannot get my NTFS partitions visible at this point. I
reconfigured several things, used Partition Magic to convert a big chunk
of disk real estate. That, at least, is temporarily satisfactory.
I swear, the first time I tried using VFAT, if failed so I fell back to
MSDOS and lost long filenames. Anyway, it works now. I'll think about
"why's" after I have a working system.
Right now, I've managed to hork up my package data so dpkg gets
hung up trying to fix things. My best bet seems to be to restart
from scratch. How do I get dpkg / apt / aptitude to clean my machine
totally, or what files should I remove to make all this stuff go
away? Or, would it really be quicker to re-init my partitions and
start again from the CD?
Without knowing what you mean when you say "hork up", it's hard to
say. I will say that it's almost never necessary to wipe/rebuild a
Debian box (although sometimes it's easier to do that, depending on
circumstances / skill level / etc).
Well, when I get all the "Broken" cleaned up, aptitude asks for disk
Binary-2, reads a bunch, then prints "Preconfiguring Modules ..." and
that's the last thing that comes out of my machine. I can go out for
dinner and come back and the screen's unchanged.
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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