On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:11:16 +0100, Carsten Fortmann wrote: > Dear All, > I tried to install debian 4.0 rc2 on a dell xps m1330 notebook. > When the install script scans for the network device > I get an error > message, saying that no ethernet device is found, only a firewire device > and asks me weather i want to use this. > i say no and now comes a list with lots of ethernet drivers, i choose > tg3, bcause my ethernet card is a Broadcom (C) NetLink BCM5906M > fast ethernet PCIExpress (rev 02) (that's what i get from lspci | grep > Broadcom in my already installed ubuntu). > however, this does not help, i'm allways redirected to the screen that > tells me, that no ethernet card is found. > i go to the shell then and > ~ # lspci | grep Broadcom > and voila, > > 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corp. Unknown device 1713 (rev 02). > > Why is the card not recognized correcly?
It seems that support for the 5906 series was added to the tg3 driver on 2006-09-27 [1]. Etch ships with the 2.6.18 kernel, which was released a few days before that date [2]. My guess is that you will need a newer kernel or at least a newer version of the driver. [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git;a=commit;h=b5d3772ccbe0bc5ac8ffbb5356b74ca698aee28c [2] http://kerneltrap.org/node/7144 > Can someone help or redirect me? You could try to use Kenshi Muto's custom Etch installer images; they come with newer kernels: http://mirror.home-dn.net/d-i/ -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
