On Wednesday 23 November 2005 17:05, Soenke von Stamm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 17:01 schrieb David Goodenough: > > How did you get this installed. We have one of these with SCSI RAID > > using the DPT RAID card, and none of the Debian installers seem to have > > the right driver in the initrd. I am thinking of putting an old IDE > > drive in just to bootstrap myself. > > I don't know about DPT and for mine I transfered a completely installed > system with 2.6.12 kernel (from unstable) from onboard SATA to LSI RAID > (using a Live CD like knoppix I think ... or was it another disk with fresh > install?).
I suspect that putting a little IDE drive on to boostrap it will help. > > > Also which driver do you use for he BCM5704C? The tg3 module does not > > seem to work and the bcm5700 driver is not build into the kernel so you > > have a chicken and egg problem to get it installed (I do not have a spare > > 3V PCI ethernet card I can put in to get me started, and USB ethernet > > adapters are not supported by the installer kernel). > > Er, I currently only have acces to a machine with 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp > running, it uses the tg3 driver which says : > eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A7) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) > 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:81:xx:xx:xx Oddly the tg3 driver loads on my system but the device never detects the link even though the light on the front lights. > > Somebody pointed to an installer image (netinstall) with 2.6.12 kernel in > this list. You might want to search for it in the archive. I have tried this and it did not work any better than the debian-installer build. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
