Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:28:24PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:24:16PM -, Dermot Bradley wrote: Ethernet controller: PCI device 11ab:4320 (Galileo Technology Ltd.) (rev 19). Is this enough info? That's actually plenty right there. Thanks. It'll be patched and fixed in the next discover-data upload. As for the availability of the driver itself, I don't know what to do about that. The sk98lin driver should do. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:28:24PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:24:16PM -, Dermot Bradley wrote: Ethernet controller: PCI device 11ab:4320 (Galileo Technology Ltd.) (rev 19). Is this enough info? That's actually plenty right there. Thanks. It'll be patched and fixed in the next discover-data upload. As for the availability of the driver itself, I don't know what to do about that. The sk98lin driver should do. You mean that the existing sk98lin driver in 2.4.22 (which debian-installer currently uses) should do it once the discover-data is updated? I don't think so as when I did a modprobe sk98lin it failed. This issue is that the sk98lin driver does not know about this onboard nic until 2.4.25-pre6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
[CC'ing wnpp #218753] Am Die, den 27.01.2004 schrieb Dermot Bradley um 05:07: The screen Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules gave a list of ethernet modules to pick from. I tried selecting sk98lin for the onboard Marvell Gigabit chip and got back Error while running 'modprobe -v sk98lin'. Can you send me the output of lspci and lspci -n. So I can see what PCI ID you card has. Running this modprobe by hand from the 2nd VT showed: insmod sk98lin Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.o insmod: init_module: sk98lin: No such device modprobe: failed to load module sk98lin From hunting about in Google I found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2003/debian-wnpp-200311/msg00034.html which indicates patches to the sk98lin driver needed for 3rd party onboard Marvell chips, in my case: Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Asus) With the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe likely to be a popular motherboard it would make sense for the installer to cater for it. AFAIK the d-i policy is to be based on herbert's official kernel-image. So a d-i patched kernel is not an option. At the end of the installation process d-i installs a kernel-image deb. This could lead to an unbootable kernel if the d-i kernel was specially patched. Is there any special reason why this patch is not included upstream? IMHO this would be the best solution. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
Am Die, den 27.01.2004 schrieb Dermot Bradley um 05:07: Can you send me the output of lspci and lspci -n. So I can see what PCI ID you card has. As the debian-installer CD doesn't seem to have lspci on it I can't provide this (its a brand new machine that has never run Linux before). AFAIK the d-i policy is to be based on herbert's official kernel-image. So a d-i patched kernel is not an option. At the end of the installation process d-i installs a kernel-image deb. This could lead to an unbootable kernel if the d-i kernel was specially patched. Is there any special reason why this patch is not included upstream? IMHO this would be the best solution. Support for this hardware (and other motherboards with similar hardware) appears to have been put into 2.4.25-pre6 (see http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/25-pre6/drivers/pci/pci.ids). So unless either the debian-installer CD moves to 2.4.25-pre6/2.4.25 soon or else kernel patches are applied to whatever kernel the debian-installer uses then there's no way to get this ethernet going (and therefore no way for me to get this machine usable). Although I'm a long time Debian user (since 1993) and an ex-Debian developer unless I can get something going shortly I may have to consider another distribution for this PC :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:51:50AM -, Dermot Bradley wrote: Although I'm a long time Debian user (since 1993) and an ex-Debian developer unless I can get something going shortly I may have to consider another distribution for this PC :-( Don't do it Dermot!!! :-) If worst comes to worst, drive out here and I could probably netboot you into an initial sarge system. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin Have Laptop, Will Travel -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:51:50AM -, Dermot Bradley wrote: As the debian-installer CD doesn't seem to have lspci on it I can't provide this (its a brand new machine that has never run Linux before). Do you have a copy of knoppix lying around that you could use instead? Or some other liveCD distro? They should provide lspci for you. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:51:50AM -, Dermot Bradley wrote: As the debian-installer CD doesn't seem to have lspci on it I can't provide this (its a brand new machine that has never run Linux before). Do you have a copy of knoppix lying around that you could use instead? Or some other liveCD distro? They should provide lspci for you. I'll see if I can dig one up. The the meantime, a cat /proc/pci shows this for the onboard ethernet: Ethernet controller: PCI device 11ab:4320 (Galileo Technology Ltd.) (rev 19). Is this enough info? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:24:16PM -, Dermot Bradley wrote: Ethernet controller: PCI device 11ab:4320 (Galileo Technology Ltd.) (rev 19). Is this enough info? That's actually plenty right there. Thanks. It'll be patched and fixed in the next discover-data upload. As for the availability of the driver itself, I don't know what to do about that. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:24:16PM -, Dermot Bradley wrote: Ethernet controller: PCI device 11ab:4320 (Galileo Technology Ltd.) (rev 19). Is this enough info? That's actually plenty right there. Thanks. It'll be patched and fixed in the next discover-data upload. As for the availability of the driver itself, I don't know what to do about that. Would it be hard for me to build my own debian-installer CD? I've not tried before. If so then I could try adding in the patches to the sk98lin driver... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Beta 2 on 26th January from www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 unknown Date: 27th January 03:00 Method: downloaded the 100Mb bootable CDROM and used that. Machine: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard Processor: Athlon XP 3200+ Memory: 1.5 Gb Root Device: IDE, Maxtor HD Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where. Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems:[ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: The screen Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules gave a list of ethernet modules to pick from. I tried selecting sk98lin for the onboard Marvell Gigabit chip and got back Error while running 'modprobe -v sk98lin'. Running this modprobe by hand from the 2nd VT showed: insmod sk98lin Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.o insmod: init_module: sk98lin: No such device modprobe: failed to load module sk98lin From hunting about in Google I found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2003/debian-wnpp-200311/msg00034.html which indicates patches to the sk98lin driver needed for 3rd party onboard Marvell chips, in my case: Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Asus) With the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe likely to be a popular motherboard it would make sense for the installer to cater for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
