> In the last three attempts my nic is not recognized and any attempt to > install one of the 3com drivers is rejected. I didn't capture any > error info but will this time if it comes up. My card is: > 3Com 3C905B-TX (PCI)
I just checked, that looks like the same card I have: 00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x1000. Vers LK1.1.16 So, it looks like unfortunately there must be something wrong with those CD's. You'll probably end up saving time by going and downloading this image: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20011227/woody_netinst-20011227-i386.iso You can burn that to a CD (it's 30 megs in size), and then boot off of it to download everything else you need. Still, once you get that up, hopefully you could grab some packages off your CD set or something. You can install any deb package with the command "dpkg -i [packagename]" . For example, if you are on a slow connection, you could get KDE packages off of those CD's. BTW, the CD above will use Woody rather than potato, but I had great success with it with the same network card apparently you have. Since the others are suggesting getting potato and then moving up to Woody, this should simply be a more direct route so long as it works. Best, Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
