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Re: new to debian but having installation problems



On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:36:57PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> I got the i386 stable.. which I think is sarge? (i'm not caught up on the
> lingo yet :P)  Here's the url I used:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r4/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso
> 
Etch will be release Any Day Now(TM), so you probably want to use that
instead.  The kernel in Sarge is quite old.  Etch has a much more
current kernel with more up to date drivers.

> Anyways, I still have Gentoo on that machine, and lspci just tells me that
> it's an Intel 1000Gigabit Ethernet Pro.  I'm not at the machine now to copy
> it verbatim, but it uses the e1000 driver in the kernel.  The install cd has
> that module in the list of modules for network cards, but the installer says
> it can't find the card.  I can try to tinker with it when I get home in
> about 20 minutes.  With my kind of luck, I prolly just need to modprobe it
> instead of rely on the installer to find it >.>

I am guessing that trying Etch will solve the problem.  If not, you will
likely need to provide the verbatim output of lspci.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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