Debian Drivers 4 My Intel board. What driver to select

RTFQ dude !

My Q
"installing the debian 3.0 R5 on a intel board ( d845gvsr ) and I can select drivers for the following :
Red hat 9
Red hat 8
Suse 8.2
Red Flag ??
"
Your Q
"where do have this list from? what is this driver for?"

A1:
If it's and intel board then I must be getting this list from the intel website eh ?
A2:
This driver choice list is for the motherboard ( and on-board hardware ! ) IE Controllers, screen, network, sound. (mostly screen and network that counts )


Since I am installing debian 3.0 R5 (woody) the kernel must be 2.4 ... I think ... could be 2.6

Does that clear things up 4 ya ?

Problem is that the network card ( that I am planning to use to continue the instalation ) does not seem to be working.

I wil conferm the version of the kernel .... if it's 2.4 and I need the driver ... whitch one should I go 4 ?

Cool ... I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thank you

If you are intrested in my instalation method, please check out
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Linux_Setup/Q_21430245.html

Here is a thought ... if I stick knoppix in, and my net card works, how do I see what driver knoppix chose ? ( or how di I steal that driver for my debian instalation ? )

I want to install debian clean, not from knoppix disks.

I'm 99% sure these drivers are provided by debian stable, so just select the modules when setting up...

Be aware that knoppix is about 700mb size, so you'd have to get your friend to download it.

I've got knoppix, got debian, got slackware.

if I stick knoppix in, and my net card works, how do I see what driver knoppix chose ? ( or how di I steal that driver for my debian instalation ? )

Do as idmisk said, run lsmod to see the loaded modules, or if you don't have a network connection after startup, run the network configuration utility (the "Knoppix" menu, network etc.). This should configure the lan and then run lsmod to check the module name. You won't be able to "steal" the driver, as it is built for that particular kernel, but the drivername will help you configure your installation.

Using lsmod I see a e100 ... must be it. Thank you kindly for all your help.

No problem, give a note if it worked!

Idmisk
If at all still relivant, sorry I dident reply to your post about lspci sooner ... here follows the lspci dump
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)

0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)

0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)

0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)

0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge (rev 01)

0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 IDE Controller (rev 01)

0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)


Cool ... ok .. thanks for showing me that one
And the Lsmod while in knoppix

Module                  Size  Used by
smbfs                  59768  4
snd_mixer_oss          18688  0
snd                    46308  1 snd_mixer_oss
i830                   27264  1
i810                   23168  0
drm                    58900  3 i830,i810
via_agp                11264  0
sworks_agp             10912  0
sis_agp                 9988  0
nvidia_agp              9756  0
intel_mch_agp          11792  0
efficeon_agp           10144  0
ati_agp                10380  0
amd64_agp              13640  0
amd_k7_agp              9740  0
ali_agp                 9216  0
autofs4                18820  1
af_packet              20104  0
i810_audio             36884  1
ac97_codec             20108  1 i810_audio
soundcore              11104  3 snd,i810_audio
e100                   34944  0
mii                     7808  1 e100
i2c_i801               11276  0
i2c_core               21248  1 i2c_i801
mtdcore                 9800  0
chipreg                 6656  0
map_funcs               5632  0
intel_agp              22044  1
agpgart                30512  13

drm,via_agp,sworks_agp,sis_agp,nvidia_agp,intel_mch_agp,efficeon_agp,ati_agp,amd64_agp,amd_k7_agp

,ali_agp,intel_agp
parport_pc             38596  0
parport                33480  1 parport_pc
8250                   41308  0
serial_core            21120  1 8250
usbhid                 42176  0
pcmcia                 21776  0
yenta_socket           21896  0
rsrc_nonstatic         12160  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            42272  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
video                  18308  

0
thermal                14984  0
processor              24552  1 thermal
fan                     7300  0
container               7296  0
button                  9104  0
battery                12420  0
ac                      7556  0
rtc                    13772  0
unionfs               830612  1
cloop                  18848  1
sbp2                   24456  0
ohci1394               33028  0
ieee1394              300600  2 sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage            63296  0
ub                     18332  0
ohci_hcd               21896  0
uhci_hcd               31376  0
ehci_hcd               31752  0
usbcore               101496  7 usbhid,usb_storage,ub,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd


Thanks again!