A fresher sk98lin anyone (LG LW20 NIC)?
Hey - again.
As stated earlier I could not get Debian-stable to detect a NIC or
drive(s) on my brand spanking new LG LW20 laptop running on Intel's 915
chipset. Finally I gave up and tried testing ("etch") where I could
partition the drive, but the NIC still failed to detect.
As it turns out, the Marvel Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E card _is_ in fact
supported by the sk98lin module but only in the newer version which (of
course) is not included in testing.
My simple mind came up with the following possible solutions:
If I could get a hold of a newer _full_ CD set of testing which would
let me install a full copy of Debian to disk without using the net
(testing seems to be available as netinstall only at the moment) things
would be dandy.
OR perhaps one could compile the newest sk98lin module against the
kernel version used in "etch" and then replace the module on the testing
boot-cd with a more fresh one?
The LW20 does not come with a floppy drive, so I'm guessing loading the
new(er) sk98lin module at install is not an option - or can one use the
CD-drive for this too?
Sorry about the questions and ramblings, but I'm closing in on this
sucker now and it'd be really nice to get things up and running. There's
virtually zero resources online on this specific model running any
distribution and Intel's 915 chipset seems to be quite unsupported at
the moment so I'm left out in the cold...
Appreciate any help I can get on this one. Thanks ppl!
/didde.
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