pro 100 ethernet load drivers during install

[octavius]

hey i have an intell pro 1000 ethernet card and during the isntall of debian it says no ethernet found ,choose from the following drivers.one of these drivers to choose from is the intel pro 1000 ethernet.however,when i choose this it says parameters need to eb apssed,if i knew what parameters needed passing that would be GREAT because NOTHING has gone right during install yet.
NOTHING.
thx

[djhobo9]

NOTHING has gone right during install yet.
NOTHING.

Welcome to Debian!

What kind of card are you using (brand and also interface--PCI, PCMCIA, USB, etc)? It really should be autodetected if you're on a newer machine (my e1000 works fine). Normally you don't need to pass any parameters to loaded modules, either.

Did you start installation in a 2.6 kernel by typing linux26 or expert26 at the boot prompt? For me, things were similarly going all wrong until I realized this problem.

Post some more information... we'd be glad to help.

[farslayer]

That's odd, the Intel Gig cards should fire right up I have one in a system here.

mail:~# lspci
0000:01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0
0000:01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 02)

Out of curiosity are you trying to install with the 2.4 kernel or the 2.6 kernel ?

mail:~# uname -a
Linux mail 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

If you are using the normal Debian 3.1r1 CD's then you are installing with the 2.4 kernel. Try this.

Boot the Install CD
At the boot prompt type linux26 this tells the installer to install the 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 kernel. that alone may fix your problem..

if not then you will need to add a module to get your Intel 1000 card working, the module for the Intell 1000 NIC is e1000 as you can see from my listing below..

mail:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
e1000 75396 0
e100 30080 0

OH and when it asks for extra parameters to be passed, just leave it blank. you shouldn't need to pass any additional parameters tot he card.

[octavius]

i am using the 31r1 install,i will try to enter tha parameter ,will this also help it find my sata drive?if so that would be WONDERFUL because then all of my linux problems would be fixed.
thanks alot for the replies

[octavius]

i loaded the 2.6 kernel and it still did not find either my ethernet card nor did it find my sata drive
it gives me the option to choose what module to load and intel pro 1000 ethernet(my card)is an option but if i enter while it is highlighted nothing happens ,even if i wait for awhile.
thanks for th ehelp but im quite sure it si useless,im doomed to never have things go properly.does anyone ever have this go smoothly?it doesn't seem like it.

[boblehue]

I have a brand new IBM with a onboard intel pro/1000 card, and my debian does not detect it. I did also try to instal ubuntu and the problem was gone??, but i wanted to run Debian so i tryed again with no luck.

I have now spent some time google my problem and found a linux driver on the intel download site that i have not tryed yet, i also came across some "old" information regarding this problem with Dell PowerEdge server http://pigtail.net/nicholas/linux/debian.html that will be tested to see if it will solve our problem.

If anyone have any other sugestions to solve this i would realy like to know about it.

tnx

"Run linux and enjoy the fun making it work."

[Stargrazer]

I had an e100 card on an IBM e300 server not get recognized with 2.6 etch install.

A website elsewhere suggested 'install noapic' when first booting from the install cd.

Worked like a charm.