Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-02 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:14:46PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), > >"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >>On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Go ahe

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Kent West
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC working yet. Use the machine that yo

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: > >Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC > >working yet. Use the machine that you're posting from to

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:35:05 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 13:54 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >>> >>>That simply means that you're running the linux kernel, version >>>2.4.18-bf2.4, and your machine name is utonium (is this related to the >>>powerpuff girls?). >> >> Yes. > >Co

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: >Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC >working yet. Use the machine that you're posting from to go to >http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/kernel-source-2.4.22.html >and download the .deb of kernel-source-2.4.22. T

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:54:12AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I should mention that I had to download this from Broadcom. I have a > CD with a source RPM and a .tar.gz. On an earlier attempt I tried to > compile it from source but after I expanded the .tar.gz I couldn't > extract resulting .tar.

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 13:54 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> >>That simply means that you're running the linux kernel, version >>2.4.18-bf2.4, and your machine name is utonium (is this related to the >>powerpuff girls?). > > Yes. Cool! My machines tend to be super mario bros. characters. >>Where is

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 05:49 GMT, Kent West penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >>I've never used apt-cache, but a quick look at the man page suggests >>that perhaps you hadn't yet generated the cache, so searching on it >>probably wasn't very helpful. Looks like the original poster assumed >>th

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:27:29 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 03:26 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:23:07 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 02:17 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>>More pertinently, what part of the general advice given to you several >>>posts ago frustrated the bejeezus out of y

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 31 October 2003 02:11, Mark Healey wrote: > When installing there was no networing setup. [...] > How do I get this to work? > > Asus A7V8X mobo with > Broadcom 4400 onboard lan [...] Mark: I just read this thread. I had a similar problem (with a different NIC) a couple of month

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 02:17 GMT, Mark Healey penned: The post then said to run "apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4 | more" and then select the apprpriate kernel. There was no output when I ran that. I've never used apt-cache, but a quick look at the man page sugges

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 03:26 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > >>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: ... >>> >>> >It all comes down to specific hardware config

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 02:17 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>Which books have you tried? > > I didn't even go past the reverse of the title page. The most recent > copyright date was july 2000. Fair enough. A lot of the core material

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: Ok, this is getting frustrating. I understand. It was very frustrating for me in the beginning also. Is it possible to get debian running without learning a bunch of arcane hacker lore? Simple answer? "No." Debian is not about ease of installation (as much as many peopl

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:26:39PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> >It all comes down to specific

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: >On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> ... >> >> >It all comes down to specific hardware configuration. Every system has >> >some hardware that it won't

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > ... > > >It all comes down to specific hardware configuration. Every system has > >some hardware that it won't be prepared to use right out of the box. > > The Broadcom 4

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I am interrested in learning how it works but it has to be working for >> that to happen. The fact is that the installation routine and >> documentation just plain suck. It doesn't help that the books >> available are ancient. > >No

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 00:46 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:59:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>I understand that you're getting frustrated with the install process, >>but really, the install is something you'll do once for this system. >>If the installation process is suc

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:59:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 22:40 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >>> >>>Run "uname -a". If your CD is a woody ("stable") CD, and it probably >>>is, you're probably running a 2.2 kernel. If so, run "apt-cache search >>>kernel-image-2.4 | more" to s

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 22:40 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> >>Run "uname -a". If your CD is a woody ("stable") CD, and it probably >>is, you're probably running a 2.2 kernel. If so, run "apt-cache search >>kernel-image-2.4 | more" to see if you have any 2.4 kernels available >>on your CD. If you do, p

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:11:45 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:57:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: >> >> >> >>>Mark Healey wrote: >>> >>> >>> When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:57:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation manual. That

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:57:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>When installing there was no networing setup. >> >>The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel >>since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation >>manual. That didn't work. >>

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:53:53 -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: >On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:11:35PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >> When installing there was no networing setup. >> >> The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel >> since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation manual. That didn't work. On the second attempt I tried the add modules option and it wasn't l

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:11:35PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > When installing there was no networing setup. > > The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel > since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation > manual. That didn't work. > > On the seco

Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Healey
When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation manual. That didn't work. On the second attempt I tried the add modules option and it wasn't listed. I tried g