Hi On Saturday 28 November 2009, Emmanuel Blot wrote: > Package: netinstall > Version: sorry, don't know how to obtain that info, see below for the > package reference and date. > > Hardware: > Intel D945GSEJT, Atom processor N270 @1.60Ghz, 1GB DDR2 > Technical specs: > http://downloadmirror.intel.com/17597/eng/D945GSEJT_TechProdSpec.pdf > > Software: > Debian netinstall dated 05-09-09 04:25, downloaded from > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ > Linux kernel: 2.6.26-2-486 #1 Wed Aug 19 05:40:02 UTC 2009 [...]
The Intel D945GSEJT mainboard ships with a RealTek rtl8168d network card,
which wasn't supported before kernel 2.6.31. Be aware that starting with
Debian's kernel 2.6.32, you'll need a binary firmware as well
(rtl8168d-1.fw and rtl8168d-2.fw), which are not available yet.
> :eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8820000, 00:1c:c0:xx:xx:xx, XID 281000c0 IRQ 219
this seems to be a rtl8168d-2.
> "r8169: eth0: link down", while the physical link is actually plugged in:
> * status leds on Ethernet socket are green,
> * status leds on the peer switch device to which the device is
> connected are green as well
>
> lspci reports:
> "01.00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)"
>
>
> I don't think the issue is related to the environment, as on the very
> same hardware environment and the same PXE/DHCP server, the Ubuntu
> 9.10 net installation successfully completes under the same
> conditions.
>
> Let me know if you need more details.
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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