Frank Miles put forth on 2/8/2010 10:32 AM: > Thanks so much to Stan, Tom H, and Cameleon! > > It seems that the consensus is that it's a NIC problem. In case > it wasn't previously clear, the RealTek 8169 is part of the Gigabyte > motherboard. > > I thought that I'd escaped non-free-firmware hell by getting a MB > with the graphics based on an Intel chip. Never had a problem before, > but then I usually stand far back from the bleeding edge. > > Stan, like you I usually use my own-build kernels. But I'd had > problems getting my own kernels to run with full graphics > capabilities, so had fallen back on the Debian 2.6.32-trunk. > > What I'm going to be doing in the short term is turning the > RealTek off (BIOS setting), and installing another NIC. I should > be able to get things running this way. I will post again once > I've done this. Longer term, I'll try to get the RealTek running. All > this flailing about has put me behind on other things, so that > may not be right away. > > Thanks again to you all... it's been real educational.
You're welcome Frank. I'm sure the Debian kernel team with get the 8169 driver/firmware issue worked out within a point release or two. Worth a look: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561309 http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-kernel/283643-2-6-32-experimental.html http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833180026 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106033 -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
