On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:00:52 -0500 donnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, not sure which install you are using, but I found this, just in > case you run into some trouble with the "Installing Foreign Modules." > > Link: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200212/msg00826.html > ************************ > Hello, > I tried to install the network module e1000.o with the function > "Install foreign Modules". This procedure works well with kernel > 2.2.20 but does not work with 2.4.18-bf2.4. > The installation program wants to copy the module e1000.o from the > floppy directory /lib/modules/net to the directory > /target/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/net. This target directory does not > exist, because the network drivers of the kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 are > located in > /target/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/net (in difference to > kernel 2.2.20). So the installation program creates a ***file*** named > "net" in /target/lib/modules/2.4.28-bf2.4/. If I created the > /target/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/net directory > before applying the "Install foreign Modules" function, the e1000.o > module was copied into this directory correctly, but the following > modconf function couldn't find it for configuration of cause. > So I had to copy the module into the /target/.../kernel/drivers/net > directory manually. > After this the modconf program can find the new driver module.
... which brings me to an interesting question : what if the kernel I use to install is too old and not able to get the NIC to work ? debian is based on network availability for installation (unless you have everything on CD *AND* a CD player which recognises your CDs (maybe mine had just problems with RW's)) in my case I had to use the 2.4.22 kernel & modules to get my NIC to work. Not sure if the 2.4.22 NIC driver would have loaded under 2.4.18 (although I doubt this as I already had this problem once and the kernel wants modules compiled for 2.4.18-bf2.4), didn't try it. is there a "debian way" of doing this ? (creating a dedicated bootdisk maybe ?) Joel
