On 12/19/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My saga isn't finished. The installer fails to configure the network. > On the plus side, after the reboot my USB edsktop is recognised. The > problem is I can't finish configuration since apt can't talk to > repositories. I could burn a bunch of CDs but it takes time to > download the images. Incidentally, i can't get bittorrent images at > all. last week i successfully got first image but since then nothing. > > Back to my lack of networking. The box has A8N-SLI nvidia nForce PCI > Express motherboard with "nForce4 built-in Gbit MAC with external > Marvell PHY - NV ActiveArmor, NV Firewall, AI NET2" which Ubuntu > recognised w/o problems. Is there some parameter I can give to the > insteller to help configuring the network? TIA,
I would imagine that it should work, but maybe you have to recompile the kernel. It seems that nVidia provides a binary only driver for the NIC, although there is an "unofficial" source code driver too: http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2005-January/000532.html If you have a spare network card hanging around (I usually do), I would just plug that one in. Then you can get the system up and running and decide whether it is worth to fiddle with the nVidia driver or not. The same goes for the keyboard issue: just plug in a PS/2 version for the installation. Once the system is all installed, the USB keyboard should most likely work. Diagnosing these problems during the installation is always a bit of a pain, especially with the modular installer. If you have the Ubuntu live CD, that one would be much more suitable for figuring out these kind of problems. There is also a 64bit version of Knoppix, which seems to be pretty ok (and closer to Debian). Thomas
