Install of woody fails at apt - no network connection - driver for ethernet card?
Can anyone explain what I need to do to complete a network install of woody on a pentium 4?
I have downloaded & installed the minimal cd image, using the bf24 option to specify the 2.4.18 kernel, but keep getting 'failed to fetch files'/'something wicked happened' (???!) error at the apt section. ifconfig shows no ethernet card, just local loopback. It looks as if the kernel does not support the ethernet card I have in this machine.
Runnng knoppix on the same machine connects to the adsl router via the network no problems, and the knoppix dmesg lists the ethernet card as being:
eth0: Intel corp 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet controller 00:01:80:0A:C5:AB, IRQ12
There was no mention of this card in the kernel module section of the install, and I have hunted the forums & FAQs & package lists for references to a networking module to load for this ethernet card, but cant find anything.
I figured that if knoppix could auto-detect it (being a mix of sarge & sid), I should be able to get woody to recognize the card somehow... Am I on the right lines? Is it simply a case of finding and instaling the right ethernet driver, or should I be using sarge instead of woody? (machine intended for a samba file server, with technophobe users, so wanted stable as poss!)
X Wolfpeach
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