I have the exact same ethernet adapter card on an Asus motherboard, and when I installed the Sarge distro it also was not detected, however, the Marvell people are linux friendly and so they have a Linux driver for the 88E8053 on their website and it works fine.
On 11/8/06, Oğuz Yarımtepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi. There is a common problem i encounter generally. The problem is mainly about Toshiba laptops. When i try to install Debian from sarge netinstall cd, i had to start installation with kernel 2.4 because with the 2.6 kernel mainly the installation system is not able to detect hard disk. Today I was trying to install Debian to a Toshiba Tecra (i think A3). The problem was the undetected ethernet. It has a Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Giagbit ethernet. What i do generally is to start installation from netinstall cd and then dist-upgrade to unstable after the base system installation. This time at the screen that asks installation location i choosed CD and used the unstable DVDs that i downloaded from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sid-dvd/ via jigdo. I am aware of the situation of using unstable but till now it worked quiete fine. After the installation system read the dvds i decided to upgrade the kernel, because it was 2.4. So i installed 2.6.15. The grub started with the wrong disk pointers, it was saying hda3. I changed it to sda3, but this time the location of CD had gone. I checked the dmesg output and couldnt see anything related with CD. I can open the system now with 2.4 kernel and continue installation but i need ethernet anyway. I checked the sites related with marvell yukon. It seems i have to download its driver from the site and install it. Thats what i will do. The question is if i had used testing DVD's during the installation, will i have such problems? The same problem was with an LG laptop today. The installation didnt detect ethernet. Tomorrow i wil try to install the ethernet driver. If i could, then i can continue the installation from internet with the updated packages. Eitherwise i am planning to download the unstable iso from the site again or maybe try the official testing dvds. I am quiete happy with unstable thats why i never tried testing. Only once, than i changed to unstable. -- Oğuz Yarımtepe Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği http://www.yarimtepe.com
-- Jake
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