Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository
really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the
rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the
driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install
linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but I have to boot into another OS and keep coming
back to Debian only to find that every package I have downloaded needs some
dependencies which I have to go back and download again.

Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without having to
burn many CDs of Debian?

You didn't tell us which ASUS motherboard you are using. It makes a
difference. I had trouble like this with an ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ, which
has an AMD64 processor.

To get the ethernet up to permit installation I just plugged an old,
well-supported ethernet card into one of my PCI slots. That enabled me
to install from a sarge netinstall disk that had been jiggered to
contain a 2.6.12 kernel. As far as I know, it is still not recognisong
the onboard ethernet. One of these days it probably will, and then I'll
suddenly have to figure out which is which -- or unplug the card.

But I still couldn't get a lot of stuff working -- trouble with RAID,
LVM, and X -- so I switched to an etch install disk. Now everything
works except for onboard ethernet, video and sound. Haven't tried to
plug in a speaker yet, the onboard nvidia chip seems to be too new for
xorg (not recognised, doesn't even work as VGA or VESA), and I haven't
had time to try the proprietary nvidia drivers yet.

-- hendrik


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