On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:40:36PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > After some work, I have discovered at least one reason for the > failure: The ethernet card is actually 3c509 and not 3c59x. The Debian > floppy does not have 3c509 with it. > > The version of Linux on the harddrive has the 3c509 module, but it > used the 2.2 kernel. Will it work? The only thing that I can possibly > think of is to copy that file to a floppy, boot into Debian, then move > that file from the floppy to /lib/modules/<KERNEL VERSION>/net/ and > modprobe it. Will this work? probably not. surely not. you can maybe download the module from somewhere and use your method, but the 2.2 kernel version won't work with the install kernel. Have you looked into using smart boot manager yet? It makes a boot floppy that will then allow you to boot from the cd drive. A
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