Debian network install

Elliott Chapin echapin-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 14 18:23:14 UTC 2005


At 12:51 PM 2/14/05, you wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:27:16PM -0500, Elliott Chapin wrote:
> > My son and I are both considering Debian. One problem for me is getting a
> > network driver for the realtek RTL8139/810x. No luck so far, and
> > debian.org's search facility is down.  FWIW, I'd be trying to install 
> on my
> > Acer laptop. I've been frustrated with dependency problems for FC2 -> FC3
> > and know that there are Debian users on this list.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
>
>Well the 8139 driver is called 8139too.  I haven't encountered a
>revision that the debian installer didn't support personally, but given
>the number of revisions realtek has made, I wouldn't be surprised if
>they had managed to make yet another incompatible revision with the same
>model number.

I'll look for that.


>Which version of debian are you trying to install and using which
>installer (and revision)?

See my msg. to Jason.


>Lennart Sorensen
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