Re: Detection of Hardware and Devices
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 14:10:34 +0000, john gennard wrote:
> Michael Pobega wrote:
[...]
> >Have you tried Debian Etch? I know Debian Sarge is a bit older and has
> >much worse hardware detection than Etch. When I used Sarge nothing
> >worked for me, but an upgrade to Etch fixed everything. I'm not 100%
> >sure if just changing your sources.list and running # apt-get update &&
> >apt-get dist-upgrade would work though. I'd do a clean reinstall if
> >possible.
> >
> I've got Sarge working without problem on three other boxes, in
> fact I maintain that Debian is the reason I never significantly
> increase my technical knowledge - it never freeezes or even
> breaks down so by the time a new release comes out I've long lost
> what little knowledge I had acquired.
>
> I had intended to go to Etch shortly (and by upgrade). I've plenty
> of space on this hard disk, so I might as well install Etch from
> scratch alongside Sarge and see if I get the success you did.
If you want a quick way to get an idea about the current kernel and your
hardware then you can paste your "lspci -n" output into the form on this
website:
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
This will list the drivers which are known to work with your devices.
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Regards,
Florian
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