Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Dear Peter, On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:56 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 13:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: [... offline bpo kernel install instructions ...] On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 21:45 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Wolodja -- thanks, that worked!  My NIC now works

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Wolodja -- thanks, that worked! My NIC now works, and I am in fact writing this e-mail from my Debian workstation! -PT On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I > surmise that the instructions will downloa

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 13:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I > surmise that the instructions will download the new packages from the > backports.org website and then install the updated kernel and everything that > the updat

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I surmise that the instructions will download the new packages from the backports.org website and then install the updated kernel and everything that the updated kernel needs (ie, all its dependencies). Unfortunately, since th

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:14 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10f0] (rev > 06) Yes, [1] confirms that you need at least 2.6.31 for your NIC - I already outlined the easiest way to

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10f0] (rev 06) Papul -- the kernel is 2.6.26-2-amd64. Sounds like I should just go ahead and update my kernel, and that should solve some other, unrelated and less critical issues.

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 22:11 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I suspect that the problem is that the motherboard is so new that it's not > supported in the 2.6.26 version of the kernel:  when I looked at the Intel > webpage relevant to the board, http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/ > desktop

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread papul
On 6/2/2010 10:41 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC > motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its > built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured > on installation. There is no eth0 ent

Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-01 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured on installation. There is no eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces, no eth0 entry displaye