On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:47 -0700, Sean Roe wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am having such a brain cramp, I am installing debian on a new box with a
> linksys gigabit card, which uses the realtek 8169 chipset. Of course the
> debian installer doesn't have the drivers for it, so I went and found them
> and compiled them (it?) and went to put it on a floppy but I am not sure
> what format to put it on. I tried the a standard winblows format and a
> fdformat with ext3 and cp'd the file over to the drive but the new box
> can't seem to find the driver r8169.o Any ideas?
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I thought most of the 2.6 kernels had the realtek 8169 module...
# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1376_FC3/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 34528 Aug 26
21:11 /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1376_FC3/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
As far as floppies go - I pulled my hair out a few weeks ago...I never
use floppies any more.
Turned out that most of my floppy disks (even many unused disks) were
bad - they were old. And the floppy in the server that I bought used was
bad (probably too much dust) and I spent a bunch of hours trying to move
a file from one machine to another.
Linux couldn't care less whether the disk were ext3 or fat. You need to
format it completely just to make sure it's good - test the disk on a
3rd computer to eliminate possibilities of one or the other floppy drive
being bad - when you never use them and the system is running a lot,
they clog up with dust/dirt.
Craig
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