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Re: Realtek r8168 problems with net installer and Intel D945GSEJT motherboard



On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 21:41:28 +0100, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:
> 2010/1/31 Tony:
> > Not sure it helps you but Squeeze installs fine on this motherboard.
> Thanks, but I want Stable, not Testing.
> 
> 2010/1/31 Florian Kulzer:
> > The first thing I would try is one of Kenshi Muto's customized debian
> > installer images with backported newer kernels and therefore better
> > support for newer hardware:
> >
> > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
> >
> > (I have not checked anything for your particular NIC, therefore I cannot
> >  say how likely it is that the d-i with the newer kernel will work.)
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't work, the installer keeps saying
> it has no drivers for the NIC, asks me for a external source I don't
> have.

What exactly is the vendor and the device ID of this NIC? (check the
output of "lspci -nn")

The only Realtek 8168 that I can find in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids has
[10ec:8168] and is listed in my modules.alias as being supported by the
r8169 driver.

What happens if you try to "modprobe r8169" with the installer? (If I
remember correctly, you can switch to a command prompt at any time with
CTRL-ALT-F2.) Also check the output of dmesg after the modprobe.

-- 
Regards,            |
          Florian   |


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