I'm not sure if this is a bug or by-design. No mention of it anywhere in the online docs AFAICS.
It seems that the debian installer (tried both stable and testing in pretty much every conceivable CD-based flavour) is hard-coded to not allow people to use a USB network card. Testing won't even install because it keeps complaining there's no network card and refuses to continue installing beyond that point. I know that my USB network card works fine, because before I formatted the hard disk it was running mandrake with an unadulterated 2.4.18 kernel using the pegasus.o that comes with the linux kernel. Sadly, the debian installers won't let me actually load my driver module :( for no apparent reason (?). I tried installing stable with no networking, and then compiling a custom kernel, but the supplied 2.4.18 kernel source that came on the stable CD (1 or 2) has all the USB network cards deleted (their section in make menuconfig is empty, ditto in make config). Is there a way around this? Is there some reason why USB network cards are hard-coded out? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
