Re: installation problem NIC

2015-01-06 Thread Schler Thomas (ID SD)
Hi Geert, thank you very much for your detailed information. During holidays, I had some time to proceed working on the Debian installation. Downloading the debian package and installing it on the system according your advice worked well. Unfortunately, after installing the new kernel (dpkg -i)

Re: installation problem NIC

2014-12-08 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:22:05PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 12:26 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > The i217 network chip is too new to work with the kernel in wheezy. > [...] Hello Thomas, This is what I have done: * Search for a Debian package with newst kernel fo

Re: installation problem NIC

2014-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 17:00 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 07:50:57PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 12:26 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > The i217 network chip is too new to work with the kernel in wheezy. > > [...] > > > > This is not true if

Re: installation problem NIC

2014-12-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 07:50:57PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 12:26 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > The i217 network chip is too new to work with the kernel in wheezy. > [...] > > This is not true if you use the latest point release. Hmm, I didn't see it in the 3.2.y s

Re: installation problem NIC

2014-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 12:26 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 03:33:06PM +, Schler Thomas (ID SD) wrote: > > I'm reporting an installation problem dealing with identifying/configuring > > a network interface card. > > > > Hardware: > > laptop Lenovo W540 (Windows7 pre-

Re: installation problem NIC

2014-12-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 03:33:06PM +, Schler Thomas (ID SD) wrote: > I'm reporting an installation problem dealing with identifying/configuring a > network interface card. > > Hardware: > laptop Lenovo W540 (Windows7 pre-installed) > graphics: NVIDIA Quadro K2100M > NIC: Intel (R) Ethernet C

installation problem NIC

2014-12-06 Thread Schler Thomas (ID SD)
Hi, I'm reporting an installation problem dealing with identifying/configuring a network interface card. Hardware: laptop Lenovo W540 (Windows7 pre-installed) graphics: NVIDIA Quadro K2100M NIC: Intel (R) Ethernet Connection I217-LM Debian source: DVD coming with a published book; author: Heike