amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

07-19-2010, 02:14 PM

On Mon July 19 2010, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On a recent DELL Opteron I had to use a squeeze installer (kernel
> 2.6.32) to detect my intel network card.

I had a similar problem on my Dell laptop.. had to install ipw2200.
http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200

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07-19-2010, 02:22 PM

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:32 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote:
> When I try to install amd64 (Debian 5.05) on my new laptop, a Lenovo x201
> tablet. I wish to use amd64 because I have 8GB for RAM and I think 64-bit is
> now the way to go.* The installer does not detect neither my wired or wireless
> NIC.* The installer gives me a list of network adapter drivers, I select the
> the appropriate drivers but it keeps saying it cannot find the network
> hardware.

> I tried Ubuntu amd64 and it was succesful but I would prefer to go with Debian.

I guess that you need a newer kernel that supports your NIC. It would
help if you could paste the output of "lspci -knn" from your Ubuntu
installation or from within a live cd like grml. You could also check
the hardware support situation at:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/

which you might want to use in order to solve your problem. I would
strongly discourage installing testing just because your NIC is not
supported by Lenny's kernel.

have fun

Wolodja
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07-19-2010, 02:38 PM

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Wolodja Wentland
<wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at:
>
> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
>

That's great ! Is this officially part of debian ? I never came across
that link before, that would have been much less pain...

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07-19-2010, 02:59 PM

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 16:38 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Wolodja Wentland
> <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> > Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at:

> > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/

> That's great ! Is this officially part of debian ? I never came across
> that link before, that would have been much less pain...

Well, it is not really officially supported, but Kenshi Muto is a DD and
has provided the images for quite some time.

have fun

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07-19-2010, 03:26 PM

On 7/19/2010 7:32 AM, Bernard Fay wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> When I try to install amd64 (Debian 5.05) on my new laptop, a Lenovo
> x201 tablet. I wish to use amd64 because I have 8GB for RAM and I think
> 64-bit is now the way to go. The installer does not detect neither my
> wired or wireless NIC. The installer gives me a list of network adapter
> drivers, I select the the appropriate drivers but it keeps saying it
> cannot find the network hardware.
>
> I tried Ubuntu amd64 and it was succesful but I would prefer to go with
> Debian.
>
> Someone has a clue on this problem?

I had a similar problem with my HP Mini 110. The NIC driver, although
FOSS, was not in the Lenny kernel. The wireless driver is Broadcom,
which relies on a binary blob. So, I needed to use a recent build of the
Squeeze installer, that had a kernel with the NIC driver. I was then
able to do a successful netinst, after which I could get everything else
setup.

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07-20-2010, 12:53 AM

Thanks Wolodja for pointing to this site.* The installer from Kenshi Muto worked for me. Now the final test it to make it work with VMware Server.

Here is the output of lspci -knn:

lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0044] (rev 02)

*** Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
*** Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0046] (rev 02)
*** Kernel modules: i915
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)

00:16.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak KT Controller [8086:3b67] (rev 06)
*** Kernel driver in use: serial
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10ea] (rev 06)

*** Kernel driver in use: e1000e
*** Kernel modules: e1000e
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
*** Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
*** Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
*** Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
*** Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)

*** Kernel driver in use: pcieport
*** Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:3b48] (rev 06)
*** Kernel driver in use: pcieport
*** Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3b4a] (rev 06)
*** Kernel driver in use: pcieport
*** Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)

*** Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
*** Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b07] (rev 06)

00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
*** Kernel driver in use: ahci
*** Kernel modules: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)

*** Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
*** Kernel modules: i2c-i801
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4239] (rev 35)

*** Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
*** Kernel modules: iwlagn
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d10] (rev 02)

ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d13] (rev 02)

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Wolodja Wentland <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:32 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote:

> When I try to install amd64 (Debian 5.05) on my new laptop, a Lenovo x201

> tablet. I wish to use amd64 because I have 8GB for RAM and I think 64-bit is

> now the way to go.* The installer does not detect neither my wired or wireless

> NIC.* The installer gives me a list of network adapter drivers, I select the

> the appropriate drivers but it keeps saying it cannot find the network

> hardware.

> I tried Ubuntu amd64 and it was succesful but I would prefer to go with Debian.

I guess that you need a newer kernel that supports your NIC. It would

help if you could paste the output of "lspci -knn" from your Ubuntu

installation or from within a live cd like grml. You could also check

the hardware support situation at:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/

which you might want to use in order to solve your problem. I would

strongly discourage installing testing just because your NIC is not

supported by Lenny's kernel.

have fun

* *Wolodja

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07-20-2010, 01:22 AM

On Monday 19 July 2010 10:14:54 Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon July 19 2010, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > On a recent DELL Opteron I had to use a squeeze installer (kernel
> > 2.6.32) to detect my intel network card.
>
> I had a similar problem on my Dell laptop.. had to install ipw2200.
> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200

For those following along at home, I recently had a similar
issue with drivers, but solved it differently -- the 2.6.32
kernel (same version number as Ubuntu 10.04) is in lenny-backports.

Of course, if the issue is missing SATA or network drivers
messing up your install, the backport kernel is not as useful, but
still, it's an option.

There was some talk at the time of the lenny release that a
"lennynhalf" kernel release might be provided, similar to what
was done for "etchnhalf", but I haven't heard anything recently
about that.

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07-20-2010, 06:01 AM

On Lu, 19 iul 10, 21:22:01, Andrew Reid wrote:
>
> There was some talk at the time of the lenny release that a
> "lennynhalf" kernel release might be provided, similar to what
> was done for "etchnhalf", but I haven't heard anything recently
> about that.

IIRC it was decided that the squeeze installer + backports kernel fills
that gap. You can search through the archives of debian-release.

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07-20-2010, 07:43 AM

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 20:53 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote:
> Thanks Wolodja for pointing to this site.* The installer from Kenshi Muto
> worked for me. Now the final test it to make it work with VMware Server.

Wonderful. I would suggest to replace the kernel you have now by one
from http://www.backports.org as you will receive kernel updates then.

kind regards

Wolodja
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07-20-2010, 09:36 AM

On Tue July 20 2010, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> Wonderful. I would suggest to replace the kernel you have now by one
> from http://www.backports.org as you will receive kernel updates then.
>
> kind regards

so if I wanted to upgrade my kernel, and I am using backports, I could do
this:

# aptitude -t lenny-backports install linux-image-2.6-686

and it would install the package 2.6.32+27~bpo50+1 ?

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