On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:15:37AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:05:14PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > My new ASUS motherboard has PCI-E Gb LAN controller on-board. I can't > > get the Etch installer to recognize it. Should I be able to? Or is > > it too new for Etch? ( I don't really need 1 Gb ethernet, but I would > > like to be able to use the PCI slot for something else than an old > > LAN card. ) > > > > I don't understand "PCI-E..on-board". To me, either it's an adapter in > a PCI-E slot or its integrated on the motherboard. My Asus M2N-SLI > Deluxe has two gigabit ethernets on-board integral to the nVidia > chipset. Etch installer saw them OK. > > What error messages do you get when you say that the Etch installer > doesn't recognize it? > > Doug.
It's not exactly an error message. It gives a long list of lan drivers and asks me to pick one for my ethernet interface. But none of them will install when I pick it. I need to add another driver to the list, I think. With clues from other responses, I've found source for a driver that I need to compile into a loadable module. I expect that doing this will solve my problem, once I get all the steps right. But I haven't had time to do it, yet. I also have reason to believe that the compiled driver module will be added to a Debian repository soon, so maybe I should just wait rather than struggling with something that I've never done before. I don't think ethernet support comes from nVidia. The tradename that I have found is Attansic L1. Thanks. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
