Network install impossible due to missing driver

[Wayne Leutwyler]

You should have good success puting an older NIC in and going that
route. If you have one laying around thats the solution I would try 1st.
Most of the older NIC's have good driver support. 

-wl

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:26, Mark wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am trying to run a network installation on a relatively new machine.
> The board has an integrated network adaptor that is not recognized by FC1
> (it finds that there is one, but doesn't have a driver). So when I try to do
> an "askmethod" install and choose HTTP as source, it asks for a driver.
> All I have is a tar.bz2 driver that contains sources which need to be
> compiled, so I guess that one is out of the question.
> 
> Is there anything else I could do besides a) installing from CD or b) put in
> an older network interface that FC1 will recognize?
> 
> I was thinking about maybe getting a new version of the installer that maybe
> has new drivers added - if there is one available.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> MARK
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