Re: new to debian but having installation problems
- From: "Mike Myers" <fluffymikey@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:24:03 -0600
On 12/31/06, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the tips! I downloaded the etch cd and it detected my card and
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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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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