On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:32:40PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > 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 kernel or at least a newer version of the driver.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 | > > > --
Hi Florian, thank you for your response. Anyway, this was not the solution. I downloaded the image with kernel 2.6.21 from http://mirror.home-dn.net/d-i/2.6.21/etch-custom-0720.iso Now, coming to the nic part to the installation, I was presented two ethernet cards to chose from. eth0 Ricoh unknown device (did not know that i have one ...) and eth1 Broadcom unknown device 1713 I tried to configure both of them manually and also specified the dns server. usually, install then get's the correct hostname via dns. not in this case. so i guess, the correct drivers are still missing. Maybe I'll try the 2.6.23 kernel tomorrow, just to find out. Cheers, Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
