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From: Wolodja Wentland on 3 Jun 2010 06:00
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 13:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I
> surmise that the instructions will download the new packages from the
> backports.org website and then install the updated kernel and everything that
> the updated kernel needs (ie, all its dependencies).
>
> Unfortunately, since the problem I'm trying to solve is that the network
> connection on my Debian workstation isn't supported, I'm assuming that this
> won't work.  I think that leaves me with two options:
>
> 1.  Walk through the dependency information provided at backports.org to
> identify all the packages which are needed by the updated kernel; download on
> my working computer (WinXP) and copy to optical or USB drive; use that to do
> the install.
>
> 2.  Since my Debian installation is brand new, I could also simply replace the
> Lenny install with a Squeeze install -- essentially, start over Squeeze.
>
> Does option (1) sound utterly unappealing?  I'm inclined to give it a shot,
> knowing that I can always fall back on option (2) if I totally botch (1).

Hehe - Should have anticipated that :)

Given that the (real) kernel package shouldn't have any dependencies you
can just download it directly from backports.org, transfer it to the
computer and install it manually.

In detail:

Download
--------

Get one of the following packages and transfer them using, for example,
an USB stick, to the other computer.

(i) http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.3-686
(ii) http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64

Installation
------------

You can install the package with "dpkg -i name_of_the_package.deb",
reboot your computer and you should then be able to use your NIC.

Post Installation Configuration
-------------------------------

I would advise you to follow the instructions on backports.org now and
install the linux-image-2.6-{686,amd64} metapackage in addition to the
(real) package installed before and issue the following command:

aptitude markauto linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.3-{686,amd64}

This will ensure that the newest kernel from backports will always be
installed as linux-image-2.6-{686,amd64} depends on the newest "real"
kernel package. [2]

A completely different approach would be to use the installer from [1]
which are Lenny installation images with a newer kernel, but that should
not be necessary given that you have already installed Debian.

Have a nice day

Wolodja

[1] http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
[2] I assume that you have configured pinning as detailed on the
backports.org website.
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From: Peter Tenenbaum on 4 Jun 2010 01:10
Wolodja -- thanks, that worked! My NIC now works, and I am in fact writing
this e-mail from my Debian workstation!

-PT

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I
> surmise that the instructions will download the new packages from the
> backports.org website and then install the updated kernel and everything
> that the updated kernel needs (ie, all its dependencies).
>
> Unfortunately, since the problem I'm trying to solve is that the network
> connection on my Debian workstation isn't supported, I'm assuming that this
> won't work. I think that leaves me with two options:
>
> 1. Walk through the dependency information provided at backports.org to
> identify all the packages which are needed by the updated kernel; download
> on my working computer (WinXP) and copy to optical or USB drive; use that to
> do the install.
>
> 2. Since my Debian installation is brand new, I could also simply replace
> the Lenny install with a Squeeze install -- essentially, start over Squeeze.
>
> Does option (1) sound utterly unappealing? I'm inclined to give it a shot,
> knowing that I can always fall back on option (2) if I totally botch (1).
>
> -PT
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is
>>
>> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10f0]
>> (rev 06)
>>
>> Papul -- the kernel is 2.6.26-2-amd64.
>>
>> Sounds like I should just go ahead and update my kernel, and that should
>> solve some other, unrelated and less critical issues. I'll try that tonight
>> (right now it's 7:15 AM local time and I'm off to work).
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions,
>> -PT
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC
>>> motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its
>>> built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured on
>>> installation. There is no eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces, no eth0
>>> entry displayed by ifconfig, no dhcpd.conf file is present, and dhcpd is not
>>> listed in inetd.conf.
>>>
>>> I suspect that the problem is that the motherboard is so new that it's
>>> not supported in the 2.6.26 version of the kernel: when I looked at the
>>> Intel webpage relevant to the board,
>>> http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/dh55tc/sb/CS-031186.htm,
>>> it suggests that a LAN driver may be needed for Linux, and I infer from
>>> their table of information that this is more likely to be the case for
>>> kernel versions prior to about 2.6.31.
>>>
>>> So what I think I need to do is the following:
>>>
>>> 1. Download and install the LAN driver
>>> 2. Manually configure the system so that it recognizes the Ethernet
>>> tap
>>> 3. Add eth0 to /etc/network/interfaces
>>> 4. add a dhcpd.conf file
>>> 5. add dhcpd to inetd.conf.
>>>
>>> Does that sound about right, or is the reality simpler / less simple than
>>> that?
>>>
>>> Assuming I've got it right: how do I accomplish step 2?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> -PT
>>>
>>
>>
>
From: Wolodja Wentland on 4 Jun 2010 03:10
Dear Peter,

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:56 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 13:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:

[... offline bpo kernel install instructions ...]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 21:45 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Wolodja -- thanks, that worked!  My NIC now works, and I am in fact writing
> this e-mail from my Debian workstation!

Great - hope you enjoy it! And you can now install all packages from
backports easily if you have the need to do so :)

May you have a sunny and nice day!

Wolodja
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