> > 2) I still cant apt-get update (the same problem i.e. (1.0.0.0) hang persists.)
>... if I remember rightly, you recently posted your dmesg output
>which showed your single ethernet card being recognized twice - as
>eth0 (associated with the via Rhine driver) and eth1 (associated
>with the 8139too driver). Since 8139too seems to be the correct
>driver, but ifconfig shows eth0, could the problems stem from your
>having the wrong driver from the card?
But in the process of upgrading to bf24 I reinstalled the system with ext3 fs and now am able to use the VESA driver. Still no i830 modules as yet. Now the contents of dmesg is ----
shatam@ginie:~$ dmesg
Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<snip>
8139cp 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.0.6 (Nov 19, 2001)
8139cp: pci dev 01:02.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.24
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd081ac00, 00:08:a1:32:e1:7e, IRQ 18
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
<snip>
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 41e1.
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 10:28:09 Apr 14 2002
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the sources.list is
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
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the apt-get update still hangs as
ginie:/home/shatam# apt-get update
0% [Connecting to security.debian.org (1.0.0.0)]
any clues
Plz help
Shatam