Suse 9.1 or, so far, 8.x-9.x. I haven't tried 9.2 yet. Why does the installation program of Suse not detect network cards and automatically load them? I can understand maybe if i'm booting off a floppy, but I've been using the boot.iso for a while now. I usually do FTP installs, but I have to load the network card manually. Why is that? Why can't the installer detect the network card and load the drivers? -- Brad Bendily - CNA/CLE Systems Administrator
It does detect and install them in the 'automatic' install. I imagine it has something to do with where in the process the driver library gets installed. With the ftp install, it assumes you don't have a local database of network cards to test your hardware against, so you have to load them manually. On Monday 15 November 2004 09:58 am, Brad Bendily wrote:
Suse 9.1 or, so far, 8.x-9.x. I haven't tried 9.2 yet.
Why does the installation program of Suse not detect network cards and automatically load them? I can understand maybe if i'm booting off a floppy, but I've been using the boot.iso for a while now. I usually do FTP installs, but I have to load the network card manually. Why is that? Why can't the installer detect the network card and load the drivers?
-- Brad Bendily - CNA/CLE Systems Administrator
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Brad Bendily wrote:
Suse 9.1 or, so far, 8.x-9.x. I haven't tried 9.2 yet.
Why does the installation program of Suse not detect network cards and automatically load them? I can understand maybe if i'm booting off a floppy, but I've been using the boot.iso for a while now. I usually do FTP installs, but I have to load the network card manually. Why is that? Why can't the installer detect the network card and load the drivers?
I don't know why it doesn't do that for you, but it certainly does for me. Even my WiFi NIC was found and easily configured.
Brad Bendily wrote:
Suse 9.1 or, so far, 8.x-9.x. I haven't tried 9.2 yet.
Why does the installation program of Suse not detect network cards and automatically load them? I can understand maybe if i'm booting off a floppy, but I've been using the boot.iso for a while now. I usually do FTP installs, but I have to load the network card manually. Why is that? Why can't the installer detect the network card and load the drivers?
I don't know why it doesn't do that for you, but it certainly does for me. Even my WiFi NIC was found and easily configured.
I'm not sure if I made this point clear, but... I'm not talking about after the install, when YAST is detecting network/video/modem/ stuff like that. I'm talking about when you first boot the boot.iso and pick "Manual Installation" or even "Installation" and then you have to pick network install then FTP. If you haven't loaded a network driver yet, you are asked to go back and load one. The cards I have are typically common 3Com cards and when I select them in the kernel modules and they get loaded then I can do my FTP install with no problem. Brad B
On Monday 15 November 2004 19:30, Brad Bendily wrote:
Brad Bendily wrote:
Suse 9.1 or, so far, 8.x-9.x. I haven't tried 9.2 yet.
Why does the installation program of Suse not detect network cards and automatically load them? I can understand maybe if i'm booting off a floppy, but I've been using the boot.iso for a while now. I usually do FTP installs, but I have to load the network card manually. Why is that? Why can't the installer detect the network card and load the drivers?
I don't know why it doesn't do that for you, but it certainly does for me. Even my WiFi NIC was found and easily configured.
I'm not sure if I made this point clear, but...
I'm not talking about after the install, when YAST is detecting network/video/modem/ stuff like that.
I'm talking about when you first boot the boot.iso and pick "Manual Installation" or even "Installation" and then you have to pick network install then FTP. If you haven't loaded a network driver yet, you are asked to go back and load one. The cards I have are typically common 3Com cards and when I select them in the kernel modules and they get loaded then I can do my FTP install with no problem.
They usually get insmodded automatically when you supply a 'install=ftp://...' parameter at the boot prompt. Sometimes you have to prepend it with 'insmod=...' (with the name of the kernel module on the dots). Cheers, Leen
Mandag 15 november 2004 15:58 skrev Brad Bendily:
Suse 9.1 or, so far, 8.x-9.x. I haven't tried 9.2 yet.
Why does the installation program of Suse not detect network cards and automatically load them? I can understand maybe if i'm booting off a floppy, but I've been using the boot.iso for a while now. I usually do FTP installs, but I have to load the network card manually. Why is that? Why can't the installer detect the network card and load the drivers?
-- Brad Bendily - CNA/CLE Systems Administrator My 2 cents would be that when using the ftp-install / boot.iso you're in manual/expert install and as such you know the drill (itches) ;-)
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