[nmglug] some more help?

[Andres Paglayan]

Sam Noble wrote:

>I gave up with the woody, now I am trying sarge,
>
>Wondered when we'd get to this :)
>
>it install fine from the CD #1
>
>What ISO's are you using?
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>
 > just downloaded the i386 with jigdo

>CD #1 but did not recognize the network device at all,
>
>This is not actually any help to you, but for what it's worth:
>I've been toying around with the new (Sarge) Debian-Installer. I'm using
>the 100mb netinstall iso's from 
>http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/
>
 > wont hurt to try

>I haven't actually used it yet, because (here's the kicker) it doesn't
>seem to support my ethernet card. HMM.
>  
>
...HMMM,

>I have assumed it's because it's the nvidia ethernet port that used to
>require a proprietary driver and they don't have the new reverse
>engineered driver in there yet. That's probably the case, but you're
>trouble makes me wonder.
>
>Is there any authomatic something to probe it?
>
>You probably just need to load the module (modprobe <driver_name>)
>But if you don't know what the driver name is you could (again) boot
>knoppix and see what module it loads.
>It might be faster to just try modprobing all 3comish looking modules in
>/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/kernel/drivers/net/ (there are several
>called 3cXXXX) and see if that works.
>It might help also to do 'lspci' and see if you can find the nic in
>there, it might give you some good clues.
>
 > I will accept a copy of knoppix, I tryied to download it but I just 
stopped since it was comming at 9kps

>Good Luck.
>
 > thanks again for invaluable information

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