Messed up my Debian Installation by removing discover
 

Hello.

I must have accidentally removed discover. Now my network card and audio is not recognized and initialized at bootup. The worst part is I'm unable to connect to the internet and I am unable to reinstall the discover package from the DVDROM.

I am using a Marvell Yukon Gigabit onboard adapter and now I am unable to load it manually too (sklin98 module?). I am still able to load the i810_audio manually.

Can somebody tell me how to get back discover so that my sound and network are recognized at startup? How do I force apt to recognize the older package from the DVDROM?

Thanks.

The easiest way is to mount the DVD, then find the .deb file for discover (most probably in debian/pool/main/d/discover/ in your DVD). cd to that directory and run dpkg -i. Something like:

# cd /dvd-mountdir/debian/pool/main/d/discover/
# dpkg -i discover.xxxxxxx.deb

That should install discover. If you're missing dependancies, you can do the same for each dependancies individually.

Chris

Never mind. I rescanned the DVD source using apt-setup and now I installed discover and got back my system to normal!

Once again Debian is the greatest! It's so easy to recover! Unlike Fedora, where I can imagine the nightmare I'd have had if I had accidentally removed a critical package.

Thanks anyway! I did it before I saw your reply.
:D

Your welcome. =) I agree with you, Debian is very good, especially after learning apt... =)

Check with lsmod which modules are loaded and adjust your /etc/modules list. Once you load the modules yourself this way, discover is no longer needed (as with hotplug).

There is no modules.list in my setup. Just modules. I think that's the file I need to edit to load the modules at startup.

Thanks Moloko, but I'm not too sure of myself to do this. Why fix something when it's not broken?

Don't fix what's broken ;)

(I do have a "space" between /etc/modules and list)