On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 22:11 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I suspect that the problem is that the motherboard is so new that it's not
> supported in the 2.6.26 version of the kernel: when I looked at the Intel
> webpage relevant to the board, http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/
> desktop/dh55tc/sb/CS-031186.htm, it suggests that a LAN driver may be needed
> for Linux, and I infer from their table of information that this is more likely
> to be the case for kernel versions prior to about 2.6.31.
I think that your issue might be easily solved by installing a newer
kernel. From what I can tell by the little research I've just done is
that your NIC should be supported by the e1000e module, but I am unsure
which version you need exactly. In order to determine that it would help
tremendously if you could post the output of the following command:
lspci -nn | grep -i ethernet
The easiest way to install a new kernel in Lenny is to use the ones from
backports. Follow the instructions given on [1] and install the new
kernel with:
aptitude install -t lenny-backports linux-image-2.6-686
or
aptitude install -t lenny-backports linux-image-2.6-amd64
which depends on the architecture you are using or if you want a 64bit
kernel or not.
Backports ships 2.6.32 these days and looking at [2] confirms that
your chipset - 82578DC - is indeed supported in that kernel version.
good luck
Wolodja
[1] http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
[2] http://tinyurl.com/32tnklm
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