Hi Tim, I take it that you had tried booting up Ubuntu 11.10 Live CD on your laptop, and it wouldn't recognise your NIC? Could it boot successfully? Wen On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Tim Lyth <tcl@tcl.homedns.org> wrote:
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On 25/03/2012 2:14 PM, Jason White wrote:
Tim Lyth <tcl@tcl.homedns.org> wrote:
Alternatively, advise on other Linux distro's installers which DO support the AR8151 would be appreciated. I would prefer to stick to the Debian family.
You could try booting a live CD such as http://www.grml.org/ (which is worth having in any case).
If it detects your network hardware, you can use it to install Debian. Debootstrap can be used for this purpose, but as I recall, grml (and possibly other live distributions) offer scripts to automate this process.
Another option would be a Debian testing installer image.
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Unfortunately, without spending a while tweaking boot options, GRML seems to be a fail. It's sticking on the nVidia GeForce GT 555M that's part of this laptop. Modprobe fails and hangs the rest of the boot process.
I am prepared to go as far as Gentoo, to get Linux on to this Laptop, but as state previously, would prefer to stick to Debian.
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