Hello, I have about 18 years of experience as a Linux and Unix user, but after an attempted upgrade about a month ago with Ubuntu, to their Dapper Drake version, I ran into serious problems and the installation essentially crashed.
I have therefore decided to return to the Debian installatioin, since this distribution is very stable in my experience. I have decided to try out the AMD64 Sarge version, despite the fact that this version is only in testing at the moment. It work a lot better than any other Debian or Ubuntu installation I have tryed out on my computer. My problem is that the network drivers don't support my ethernet hardware. As indicated in the topic, my motherboard is a ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe and the problem I have is that the ethernet drivers don't recognize my hardware. The chipset is a Nvidia nForce 4 and the ethernet controller chip is a Marvell 88E81111 Gigabit Lan PHY. I have attempted to use the forcedeth drivers delivered with the installation iso file, and they don't recognice my hardware. I have attempted to install the drivers with apt, but the iso image don't have apt. I have attempted to install the drivers with dpkg, but the iso don't have dpkg either. I attempted to install dpkg into ram memory with the start a shell option in the install image, but dpkg is as far as I could find out only available as a .deb file which requires dpkg in order to install. I.e. a chicken and egg problem. Currently I have no idea about how I could install Debian with the kernel version currently in the install image, i.e. Linux 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic. Could somebody help me with the creation of a new install image, with the kernel replaced by the latest stable kernel and the latest forcedeth drivers replacing the version in the current image. I will be happy to try it out, and will of cause report any problems back to this mail list. Please respond to the mail list only, I will scan it for any responce. An thanks in advance for any help provided. With my best regards, Soren Jonsson, Sweden. MSc in Computer Science -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.8/415 - Release Date: 2006-08-09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
