Hi Laurent: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to use systemimager 4.1.6 to install a Debian system on Dell > Optiplex 755 machines. I have been using systemimager successfully for > several years on other machines, but on those Dell machines I have 2 > problems: > > 1. they have no PS/2 keyboard connector and an USB keyboard is > provided. The USB keyboard becomes inactive once the systemimager > provided kernel boots. This problem would not be serious if > systemimager worked without user interaction. However, since > systemimager fails because of another problem (see below), this makes > debugging the other problem very difficult. > > 2. they have an Intel Gigabit network adapter. This adapter works with > the e1000e module in the 2.6.24 kernel (tested with an Ubuntu livecd). > However, in the systemimager kernel this driver is not enabled: > > $ grep E1000 /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/config > CONFIG_E1000=y > CONFIG_E1000_NAPI=y > # CONFIG_E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT is not set > # CONFIG_E1000E is not set > > and the e1000 driver does not seem to work on this machine. Therefore I > suggest that you activate the e1000e driver. For a > discussion on e1000 vs. e1000e, see: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/278016/ Have you tried using UYOK: http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/UYOK ? This should eliminate the need to tinker with the SystemImager default kernel. But I agree, we should probably add support for the e1000e. Also, if you could tell us which modules are missing for your USB keyboard, that would be great too. Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
