On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:38:37 -0400, John Mollman wrote: > I'm going to give Debian Squeeze a try on my netbook, but when I boot up > using the netinstall CD, the installer fails to auto configure the wired > connection with DHCP. I'm thinking the network card in this netbook > (Toshiba NB505) is too new for the kernel 2.6.32.
But the installer detects the network adapter? If yes, try to configure it by hand by providing static values (no DHCP). > Is there a special kernel module I could load on startup in order to get > the wired connection to work for the install? After the install, I plan > to use a kernel module to get the wireless working found on this wiki > page: http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Squeeze > > Any idea what I should do to get the network card to operate with the > wired connection for the install? It is listed here: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Toshiba/NB505/ And seems to use a commom ethernet chipset/driver :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.20.11.26...@gmail.com