On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 06:42PM, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote(heavy snippage):
>> Due to lack of funds and lack of access to CD-burner, I was hoping to use the >> Floppies / net install option to install to my new comp ( Intel D845GBV moterboard >> with onboard LAN ). >do you know what chipset it is? mobo is 845G. The NIC / LAN whatever, I dunno. > i would guess that it's an ether express >card of some kind because the mobo is intel, so try ctrl-alt-d2 to get a >root prompt during install, and running > >modprobe eepro100 > >then > >ifconfig eth0 modprobe eepro100 says Device or resource busy, insmod /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/eepro100.o failed. ifconfig eth0 says 'eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found' >if eth0 shows up, you should be good. if not, you might need to try >other modules. they should be located in > >/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/ Okay. I guess I should just start going down the list. >also, you said that this is your first install of linux. i'd really recommend >taking the time to download and burn yourself a knoppix cd (also based off >of debian). I'm trying to harrass those friends of mine with burners to do so for me. Thanks for the suggestion. >hth > sean -------------------- John Kenneth Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
