Re: new to debian but having installation problems

On 12/31/06, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:36:57PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> On 12/30/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:20:41PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the prompt response!
> >>
> >> I'm using the i386 netinst. The ethernet card is an intel
1000gigabit
> >> ethernet pro. When I boot to the cd and go into a second terminal,
> >lspci
[...]
>
> Anyways, I still have Gentoo on that machine, and lspci just tells me
> that
> it's an Intel 1000Gigabit Ethernet Pro. I'm not at the machine now to
> copy
> it verbatim, but it uses the e1000 driver in the kernel. The install cd

not sure exactly which 2.6.8 kernel is in the sarge install, but I
still have 2.6.8-2 hanging around and it has the e1000 module, so
probably a 'linux26' when booting the installer would do it. if not,
then the etch install definitely will.

A



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Thanks for the tips! I downloaded the etch cd and it detected my card and
installed fine. The only issue now is getting the nvidia driver installed.
The 'nv' driver doesn't work with my widescreen display at all. It looks
like to do this, I need to have a custom kernel so the driver from nvidia
can build a module for it. Might there be an easier way to do this?

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