Re: HP a1540n
On Feb 22, 3:50 am, Andrew Sackville-West
<and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:28:53PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
> > Nu-Genoa wrote:
> > > Good Morning,
>
> > > I am just wondering if anyone has had trouble installing Debian
> > > (sarge) onto a HP a1540n machine. I am looking for other users that
> > > have this system or similiar to it and have Debian ( or any distro of
> > > linux ) installed and fully operational.
>
> > > The main and first problem I ran into was the onboard ethernet not
> > > being found. According to HP's website it is listed as a 10/100
> > > Marvell 88EC031. Under windows it says it is a nVidia onboard lan card
> > > but I am not sure if it has to do with the chipset and all. It has the
> > > nForce 430/410 drivers installed. When trying to configure the card in
> > > the install it can't be automatically found so someone told me to use
> > > the forcedeth drivers but they require an IRQ and under WinXP, the lan
> > > doesn't have an IRQ. Any ideas? I am thinking about skipping this part
> > > and coming back but I would rather fix it during the install to have
> > > inet to use apt power.
>
> > > Also, how good is debian in SATA support? I heard it isn't great and
> > > that I might run into trouble there as well.
>
> > Christopher,
>
> > I can't answer your question about the network card, but I can tell you
> > that Debian (etch and I assume sarge) has no trouble with SATA. It's
> > treated as a SCSI drive, so instead of being hda, it's sda, but other
> > than that, it works the same.
>
> sarge has trouble with SATA. etch generally does not.
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Yea. I just tried to install sarge and it didn't detect the ethernet
card or the hard drive. I guess I have to either wait for etch or get
another distro.
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