Dear Mr. Prevor, At Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:35:56 -0400, Harry Prevor wrote: > > On 2013-10-03 10:26, YAMAMOTO Kentaro wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to install gNS 3 on an amd64 computer with an Intel > > i218-lm Ethernet controller. Since this is pretty new, it seems to be > > unsupported by gNS (or perhaps by other distributions). Without an > > Internet connection it cannot be installed by the usual procedure. > > > > What can I do to install it on my machine? And if I can install, can > > I use the network adapters to get connected? > > You should be able to install the basic gNewSense without an ethernet > connection using the LiveCD versions.
The d-i fails because it cannot find the grub-related packages. I don't know if this has something to do with the unavailability of network connection. > You may want to try your luck with the latest kernel version, which you > can install on top of gNS with this apt-repository: > <http://jxself.org/linux-libre/> It's worked wonders for me with getting > devices to work in gNS, and I'd be very suprised if your device doesn't > work after doing this. > Of course, to install the newer kernel, you'll need a connection of some > sort. Do you have any USB WiFi receivers like > <http://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/166/> (which works with gNewSense) that > you could use to temporarily connect to the Internet to get your > ethernet working? I have one that should work with free kernels, but it fails to work with gNS live CD. (I haven't tried to see if it works with complete installation.) > Or, you could install the distribution using the LiveCD, then chroot > into it from another GNU/Linux distribution with working internet, > install the kernel, and reboot. > Regards, -- YAMAMOTO Kentaro <ykent...@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
