<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2007 2:00 PM, Dagfinn Stangeland <<a href="mailto:jodgipost@gmail.com">jodgipost@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Shooting in the dark but...<br>Try external (USB) optical drive?</blockquote>
</div><div>I would if I had one lying around...
<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><br>Try setting SATA BIOS settings to legacy</blockquote></div>
<div>I played around with this quite a bit, set it to "compatible" and tried a few "PIO" and "DMA" modes that i didn't understand... to no avail.
<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><br>Try "linux noapic nolapic acpi=off" as CD boot option
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Didn't help. <br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><br>Try plonking in another ethernet card and start off from there....
</blockquote></div><div>Yes that could be a quick fix, I haven't got one right now, but... <br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<br><br>That's weird. There's hardly an ethernet card out there that linux<br>doesn't recognize today. Are you up to trying a knoppix live CD again,<br>to check how the card is identified?</blockquote></div><div>
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Here's the K12LTSP 8 test1 (which installs without so much as a whimper) lspci output:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)<br>
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02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)<br>00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)<br>00:
1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)<br>00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)<br>00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
<br>00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)<br>00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)<br>00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
<br>00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)<br>00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)<br>00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
<br>00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)<br>00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)<br>00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
<br>00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)<br>00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)<br>00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
<br>00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)<br>00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)<br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)</span><br>02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 03)<br>02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 03)
<br>04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev c0)<br><br></div></div>Thanks again for all the help, guys!<br><font color="#888888"><br>Dagfinn Stangeland<br><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>I made a partition on the harddrive using a liveCD, put the install ISO on it and extracted it.<br>Tried an askmethod HD install, but it turns out the installer asks for a driver for that too <sob>
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I'm running out of other ideas than getting the driver for the above listed hardware.<br>Who could I ask? I mean, the above chipset and ...things are common these days and supported by all the latest distros.<br>Is there no way of supplying the K12LTSP6 and 5EL installer with the needed driver?
<br><br><br>sigh...<br><br>Dagfinn<br>