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I started to install it today on a machine that has no operating system which is a Dell PowerEdge T105. I get to the point where it it trying to load the Ethernet driver and basically get the "No Ethernet card was detected." message. I go in and select the driver (which I believe is ixgb: Intel(R) PRO/10GBit Ethernet) and it blanks out and then returns me to the page.

To be honest I don't know if I have the right driver but checking into it I have identified that my choices are Intel: PRO PCI-E Gigabit Family of Adapters 10.0 or Broadcom: NetXtreme Family of Adapters 10.5/T3.5. I also found Dells web site http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/ for the drivers and they do support RedHat and SuSE Linux.

The version I downloaded is Debian 4.0R3 (DVD format) and checksums came back as good.

My problem is that the computer doesn't have a floppy drive, so I can't load up a floppy, and the files are too big for a floppy anyway (they are in tar format). Although the system does see USB drives on boot up, but the install can't see them or I don't have an option of (seeing) installing them before I get to the network part.

All Dell says about the adapter is part number 430-0488 Onboard Network Adapter... so still trying to figure out what the correct driver is.

Anyone have any ideas or should I just continue without loading the Ethernet driver? And install after the install?

Note that I am a novice with this operating system (Linux), fairly decent with windows and know enough about unix to know what not to do.

Thank you for any help.

David

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Re: Dell PowerEdge T105 - No Ethernet card was detected.

Submitted by RC on Thu, 2008-03-20 11:24.

I have the same problem, also a poweredge T105 with the Debian 4.0r3 cd.
If it helps, the network card here is a Broadcom Nextreme 5722 gigabit, integrated on the motherboard, it doesn't show up in the list anyhow, after browsing some forums I've come the point of searching the drivers, then burning them onto a cd or usb device, and installing them afterwards. In the Debian installation process I currently don't have a network card selected, the system installs perfectly normal apart from that, ofcourse it gives some errors on the network mirrors and security update site, but that can be fixed afterwards when I get the network up and running.
So from what I got, we need to install without network support, get the drivers, compile and install them on the server.

Hope this helps, if you come up with a working solution let me know ;) I'm fairly new to debian myself, yet learning everyday^^

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Re: Dell PowerEdge T105 - No Ethernet card was detected.

Submitted by RC on Tue, 2008-04-08 05:25.

I've got it solved now :)

I used a custom debian disc, a modified 4.0r2 using the more recent 2.6.24 kernel, which has the needed drivers built in.
It gives an error trying to mount while installing, to avoid this start the installation with 'install ide=nodma' instead of just hitting enter(thanks to a user on the ubuntu forums), this issue is due to the sata dvd-drive.
http://linux.dell.com/debian_9g.shtml (the dell site that got me this image)
http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (the site, linked from dell, containing the modified images)
I used the AMD64 etch-custom-0215.iso

Worked for me
goog luck ;)

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Re: Dell PowerEdge T105 - No Ethernet card was detected.

Submitted by kkee on Fri, 2008-04-25 23:07.

I am trying to install Debian on the same system. I am using the modified image as you specified. I can't get pass the Unable to find CD ROM error. I tried the followings:
install ide=nodma

install all_generic_ide=1

None worked. Any other idea? I tried Ubuntu8 AMD 64 and got the same problem. I then tried Ubuntu 7 i386 and it installed fined.
I want to stick with Debian, at least AMD 64.

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Re: Dell PowerEdge T105 - No Ethernet card was detected.

Submitted by pinniped on Sun, 2008-04-27 07:21.

In the installer, when you get to the "can't find CDROM", press [alt][f2] to get a second virtual console. From there, do:
lsmod
That should list the currently loaded modules. If your DVD drive is a SATA device as mentioned by RC, you should see some SATA drivers loaded. If not, you need to find out what drivers those are and load them yourself using 'modprobe', then return to the installer ([alt][f1]) and try to repeat the step that failed.

If you're not even getting to the installer, then drivers may be missing and you need to specify them by name on the command line when you boot; for example:

install ide=nodma some_sata_driver

For example on my computer that would be something like:
install ida=nodma sata_sil

Finding out what SATA driver you need can be a bit of a challenge. The user's manual and google may help a little. If the installer has the tool "lspci" then life is a little easier - on my system (which is NOT your system), "lspci"
turns up this as one of the lines:

03:0b.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)

So in my case I go hunting for a driver for SiI 3114. There are a few more clues - that "03:0b.0" is the PCI Bus ID - I can use lspci again to find out the "ProductID:VendorID" which uniquely identifies the chip and use that to help me find a driver:

lspci -n|grep "03:0b.0"
03:0b.0 0180: 1095:3114 (rev 02)

There you go - for my computer my magic number is 1095:3114 for my SATA chip. Google, some hardware databases, and a geek friend with the source code can all help you find the driver name.

You can also look for other tips on:
http://tuxmobil.org/

Sometimes you get lucky and someone posted good instructions on how to load a specific distribution+version onto your hardware.

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