I have several fit-PC 1s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fit-PC#fit-PC_1.0 I have done fresh
installs of Buster on two, so it should work. But recently the net
install ISO (debian-10.0.0-i386-netinst.iso) did not find the two
Ethernet adapters.
root@chaffee:~# lspci -vs 00:0d.0
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast
Ethernet Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at f800 [size=256]
Memory at e1014000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139cp, 8139too
root@chaffee:~# lsmod | grep 8139
8139too 32768 0
8139cp 28672 0
mii 16384 2 8139cp,8139too
root@chaffee:~#
These adapters do not require firmware.
Two questions:
* The netinst installer has supported these in the past, including, I
believe, 10.0. Or am I mistaken, these are no longer supported.
* I tried supplying the kernel modules from a working installation. The
installer looked only at the device itself (/dev/sdb) and not at any
partitions (/dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, etc). Even when I provided the
drivers on a partitionless device (a USB floppy disk drive), it
failed to find the modules. How do I set up the media so the
installer can find the modules?
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