Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation
From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 07/29/03
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:20:37 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
ThinKer wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 03:32, Michael Waters wrote:
>
>
>>>Network Card
>>>Netgear Fa311 10/100 NIC (PCI)
>>>
>>>
>
>Thanks! As soon as I loaded the module closest to what you recommended
>"natsemi-scyld" the installation said it was successful and the
>Automatic Network Configuration menu came up asking me if I wanted to
>use DHCP or BOOTP to automatically configure the interface. I chose yes,
>but the configuration failed for some reason, so I had to configure the
>network manually.
>
>Now, after the manual configuration was complete, I attempted to install
>the base system again. According to the instructions at ...
>http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst
>
>I should place the following URL in the Download URL space ...
>http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/
>
>However, when I do this I get the message "Release Check Failed: The
>server was unavailable or contained no Release file."
>
>
>Questions:
>
>1. Is this the correct ftp location, and if not, what is?
>
>
It doesn't quite look right to me, but then I've never been able to
figure out the syntax for sources.list. I just copy them from
pre-existing machines. Here's the Stable lines from my
"/etc/apt/sources.list":
# Stable
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>2. Since the DHCP didn't take and I am not sure if my manual
>configuration worked, how can I check to see if I am actually able to
>get out on this machine?
>
Quickest, easiest test is probably just a simple "ping" command.
Something like "ping www.wired.com" or "ping someserver.somewhere.org".
You'll want to be ready to hit Ctrl-C after you get a couple of "64
bytes from ...." type responses, or it'll just keep going continuously.
If you get something like "unknown host" or it just hangs for a long
while, you've got problems (or the remote site is not responding
properly, probably for "security reasons", in which case you'll want to
try a different address). You can also ping by address. If you get a
proper response by address ("ping xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa"), but not by name,
your problem is probably in "/etc/resolv.conf".
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