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Ethernet card Marvell
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:09:30 +0100
Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Marvell Ethernet card (on motherboard) model 88E8053.
> It is not recognized by Etch (however the CD I tried to install from
> is rather old +- 1 year).
> (note: under Fedora 6 it is recognized and works fine with driver
> sky2)
>
> What is the current situation / support about Marvell 88E8053 under
> Etch ?
> As my Etch CD is rather old do I need to burn a new one ?
> If so where can I check which hardware is supported in .iso Etch to
> avoid unecessary download ?
> Do I need to make some 'home-computing' like download driver and/or
> source (via a supported Ethernet card) card to build my own
> module..etc.. ?
>
> Thanks for any clue and information.
>
> Bye,
> Bruno
since it is a kernel module, if it is present in a kernel version in
one distro it is present in another, i.e. , Debian. You may have to
manually insert the correct module if the install system fails to pick
it up. 'modprobe ' at a second vt.
Use a daily-build net-install disk to get an uptodate install disk.
--
Greg Madden
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Ethernet card Marvell
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 12:16:13 Greg Madden wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:09:30 +0100
>
> Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Marvell Ethernet card (on motherboard) model 88E8053.
> > It is not recognized by Etch (however the CD I tried to install from
> > is rather old +- 1 year).
> > (note: under Fedora 6 it is recognized and works fine with driver
> > sky2)
> >
> > What is the current situation / support about Marvell 88E8053 under
> > Etch ?
> > As my Etch CD is rather old do I need to burn a new one ?
> > If so where can I check which hardware is supported in .iso Etch to
> > avoid unecessary download ?
> > Do I need to make some 'home-computing' like download driver and/or
> > source (via a supported Ethernet card) card to build my own
> > module..etc.. ?
> >
> > Thanks for any clue and information.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Bruno
>
> since it is a kernel module, if it is present in a kernel version in
> one distro it is present in another, i.e. , Debian. You may have to
> manually insert the correct module if the install system fails to pick
> it up. 'modprobe ' at a second vt.
>
> Use a daily-build net-install disk to get an uptodate install disk.
>
> --
> Greg Madden
Greg.
sorry but what do you mean by 'second vt' ?
Thanks for attention and explanations.
Bruno
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Ethernet card Marvell
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:08:35PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > since it is a kernel module, if it is present in a kernel version in
> > one distro it is present in another, i.e. , Debian. You may have to
> > manually insert the correct module if the install system fails to pick
> > it up. 'modprobe ' at a second vt.
> >
> > Use a daily-build net-install disk to get an uptodate install disk.
> >
> > --
> > Greg Madden
>
> Greg.
> sorry but what do you mean by 'second vt' ?
Hi,
by 'second vt' he means the second virtual terminal, switch to it by
pressing Alt-F2.
Jirka Novosad
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Ethernet card Marvell
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 10:09 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> If so where can I check which hardware is supported in .iso Etch to avoid
> unecessary download ?
You can use this as a basic check for compatibility,
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22
Ethernet card Marvell
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:09:30AM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> I have a Marvell Ethernet card (on motherboard) model 88E8053.
> It is not recognized by Etch (however the CD I tried to install from
> is rather old +- 1 year).
> (note: under Fedora 6 it is recognized and works fine with driver sky2)
>
> What is the current situation / support about Marvell 88E8053 under
> Etch ?
> As my Etch CD is rather old do I need to burn a new one ?
> If so where can I check which hardware is supported in .iso Etch to avoid
> unecessary download ?
> Do I need to make some 'home-computing' like download driver and/or
> source (via a supported Ethernet card) card to build my own module..etc.. ?
You need the sky2 module. The Etch (2.6.18) module should work well
enough to get a newer kernel and compile it. To get 2.6.18 in Etch, you
will need a newer install disk. Yesterday's daily build definitely has
sky2.
You will need to obtain a 2.6.21-rc1 kernel or better (or at least a
newish kernel + sky2.c and sky2.h version 1.13) because there are some
serious bugs in earlier versons.
Use make-kpkg (in package kernel-package) to build your kernel and
you'll stay inside the Debian package management system.
--
Rob
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