Hi, I'm trying to use systemimager 4.1.6 to install a Debian system on Dell Optiplex 755 machines. I have been using systemimager successfully for several years on other machines, but on those Dell machines I have 2 problems:
1. they have no PS/2 keyboard connector and an USB keyboard is provided. The USB keyboard becomes inactive once the systemimager provided kernel boots. This problem would not be serious if systemimager worked without user interaction. However, since systemimager fails because of another problem (see below), this makes debugging the other problem very difficult. 2. they have an Intel Gigabit network adapter. This adapter works with the e1000e module in the 2.6.24 kernel (tested with an Ubuntu livecd). However, in the systemimager kernel this driver is not enabled: $ grep E1000 /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/config CONFIG_E1000=y CONFIG_E1000_NAPI=y # CONFIG_E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT is not set # CONFIG_E1000E is not set and the e1000 driver does not seem to work on this machine. Therefore I suggest that you activate the e1000e driver. For a discussion on e1000 vs. e1000e, see: http://lwn.net/Articles/278016/ -- Laurent Bonnaud. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
