| Stephen Gran on 4 Nov 2003 14:27:02 -0500 |
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:58:15PM -0500, Jon Nelson said: > Leroy, > > Thanks for the offer. I have been struggling with it all day. > > My main problem is that my NIC (Intel PRO/1000 XT) is not being > recognized. Therefore I can't do a net install. I have CDs but they are > 2.2. > > I did install 2.2 and then downloaded the driver from Intel. When I tried > to compile the driver I got an error about version.h being missing. Some > addtional reading indicated that the source and the current config had to > match or it would not compile. So it looks like I hve to compile a kernel > just to get this driver to install. > > Am I going about this the wrong way? It just seems that it should not be > this difficult. > > Jon I know that one of the install cds contains multiple kernel versions - there it is. cd 1 is supposed to be a multi-boot cd - there is some option (f2?) to list the various boot parameters when you get the boot: prompt. Choose the bf2.4 kernel, and you'll install a 2.4 kernel ,which I'm fairly sure contains the driver for that card. HTH, and sorry that's not a more specific answer - I haven't had to reinstall in a _long_ time. One of the things I love about Debian :) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | f u cn rd ths, u r prbbly a lsy spllr. | | steve@lobefin.net | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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