On Wednesday 28 February 2007 12:16:13 Greg Madden wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:09:30 +0100 > > Bruno Costacurta <pubmb01@skynet.be> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a Marvell Ethernet card (on motherboard) model 88E8053. > > It is not recognized by Etch (however the CD I tried to install from > > is rather old +- 1 year). > > (note: under Fedora 6 it is recognized and works fine with driver > > sky2) > > > > What is the current situation / support about Marvell 88E8053 under > > Etch ? > > As my Etch CD is rather old do I need to burn a new one ? > > If so where can I check which hardware is supported in .iso Etch to > > avoid unecessary download ? > > Do I need to make some 'home-computing' like download driver and/or > > source (via a supported Ethernet card) card to build my own > > module..etc.. ? > > > > Thanks for any clue and information. > > > > Bye, > > Bruno > > since it is a kernel module, if it is present in a kernel version in > one distro it is present in another, i.e. , Debian. You may have to > manually insert the correct module if the install system fails to pick > it up. 'modprobe <module name>' at a second vt. > > Use a daily-build net-install disk to get an uptodate install disk. > > -- > Greg Madden Greg. sorry but what do you mean by 'second vt' ? Thanks for attention and explanations. Bruno -- Bruno Costacurta PGP key : http://www.costacurta.org/keys/bruno_costacurta_pgp_key.html Key fingerprint = 713F 7956 9441 7DEF 58ED 1951 7E07 569B 2E60 4D51 --
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