On Saturday 04 August 2007 08:14, percy tiglao wrote: > Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get > Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it > did not autodetect my ethernet card. It is a 82562V-2 integrated card, > at least according to the Windows Vista devise manager.
Hi Percy. As nobody has replied yet, I may as well throw in some stuff. If Vista is correct the vendor/device id's for the card should be 8086 10c0. If you run lspci -v , is the card showing on the list? > > Anyway, I do have a very basic system up and running. No internet > support or anything, so I can really only do stuff from the Windows > side of my system right now. I'm not sure how I can get logs of what I > do to my email from Debian so I'm sorry about the lack of the logs. > I'll do my best to describe the error messages however. > > As I stated earlier, the installer did not detect the network card. I > tried loading the "e1000" module inside the installation program which > according to intel should be the module I need: > http://downloadmirror.intel.com/9180/ENG/README.txt > > The installer wouldn't acccept it, it would just loop back to the > "select module" screen. I tried to "modprobe e1000" manually during > the installation, but that didn't work either. No error messages come > up. I've had problems with Debian detecting my Realtek 8139 card (8139too driver), and had to add to /etc/modules the line. 8139too After that the networking worked ok (after a reboot that is) It may be worth doing just that with the e1000 module. When you modprobe the e1000 after booting up what does running lsmod show? You should see 2 modules to do with the network. These are mine for mii, and 8139too. See below. 8139too 23936 0 mii 4864 1 8139too > > After that, the rest of the system installed without any hassle, but > obviously I cannot connect to the internet right now without any > network card, so I don't have anything installed aside from whatever > is on the base netinstall on Lenny. > > I've tried to "modprobe e1000" after the installation, and there seems > to be no errors that happen. I use dmesg and aside from the loading > message from e1000, no other messages pop up. I've also added "iface > eth0 inet dhcp" into my /etc/network/interfaces file, and tried to do > "ifup eth0", but that fails with the message: 'Device "eth0" does not > exist' I've never used dhcp, but always static addresses, as I have a bunch of distros that run on these 2 machines, and like to have the addresses always the same, but here is my /etc/network/interfaces for eth0. # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 (this points to the smoothwall firewall) > > Thank you for reading this message. I'd really like to get Debian up > and running as soon as possible so please help. As an aside, all error > messages and other logs are from memory + google. So they may not be > 100% correct but they're the best I got right now. I've done a bunch of Googling today about this card, and found some stuff for ubuntu using the 2.6.20 kernel, where the e1000 module isn't working correctly. Which kernel are you using? I only have a 2.6.17 one on both my Etch, and Lenny installs. The ubuntu bug link is below, preceded by my Google search line. Linux driver for 82562V-2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+bugs The bug is 5th from the bottom, see below. 121187 E1000 driver for 82562V-2 (8086:10c0) device I can't say much more at the moment, and have only CC'd you as you havn't had a reply since Saturday, and may not be viewing the list. Perhaps someone more clued up than me may reply to my reply to your original post. All the best. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
