It was an issue of the onboard controller being disabled in the bios. Thanks! On 8/12/05, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Josh Welch wrote: > > > I have installed FC3 on another machine, but I am doing my first > > > Debian install. I am putting it on a Dell 1400SC server with an > > > onboard Ethernet card. > > > > > > The Debian installer is asking for the name of the driver. Do I need > > > to specify a driver if port is on the motherboard? > > Even if the device is on the motherboard, it is still connected via > the PCI or ISA bus. The system/driver does not care. > > > Doesn't matter where the port is, still need a driver to run it. That > > dell should have an Intel Pro 100 NIC, which is the eepro100 driver IIRC. > > The eepro100 is the old (Donald Becker) driver. Use e100 instead as it > is the new driver developed with help from Intel. It has higher > performance and supports power management. > > florin > > -- > > Don't question authority: they don't know either! > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFC/Nx9ND0rFCN2b1sRAnrUAJ9/s0KRfOjoOSRsksSgPZQGKcjOBgCfZyDx > WdlcFjMO4e2+JBH+pmr+9v4= > =BjKq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >