On Monday, 18.12.2006 at 14:02 +0100, Erhard Schultchen wrote: > Greetings, > > I am planning to upgrade our department's router/firewall running > Debian/sarge with some fancy GBit NICs (Intel GT). From my first tests > I noticed that the e1000 module from linux-2.6.8 does not recognize > the new card, however KNOPPIX with a 2.6.17 does. So its time for a > kernel upgrade... This is exactly what I use. I set it up last year, and it's using a basic Sarge installation with a backported kernel. It's a very minimal installation other than that. If you have NICs other than the not-recognised-by-2.6.8 ones, use one of those to get the installation done, install the backported kernel, then put the nice NICs in :-) Alternatively, Etch is almost 'stable' anyway ... if you're in no hurry, or paranoid, wait until it's officially released and do a normal Etch installation. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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