Network Connectivity Hardware
Most PCI and many older ISA network cards are supported.
Some network interface cards are not supported by most Debian
installation disks, such as AX.25 cards and protocols;
NI16510 EtherBlaster cards; Schneider & Koch G16 cards;
and the Zenith Z-Note built-in network card. Microchannel (MCA) network
cards are not supported by the standard installation system, but see
Linux on MCA for some (old)
instructions.
FDDI networks are also not supported by the installation disks, both
cards and protocols.
As for ISDN, the D-channel protocol for the (old) German 1TR6 is not
supported; Spellcaster BRI ISDN boards are also not supported by the
&d-i;.
Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel should
also be supported by the boot disks. You may need to load your
network driver as a module. Again, see
for complete details.
The following network interface cards (NICs) are supported from the bootable
kernel directly:
Sun LANCE
Sun Happy Meal
The following network interface cards are supported as modules. They
can be enabled once the drivers are installed during the setup.
However, due to the magic of OpenPROM, you still should be able to
boot from these devices:
Sun BigMAC
Sun QuadEthernet
MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet
Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel should
also be supported by the boot disks. You may need to load your
network driver as a module.
Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel should
also be supported by the boot disks. You may need to load your
network driver as a module.
Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel should
also be supported by the boot disks. You may need to load your
network driver as a module.
Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel should
also be supported by the boot disks. You may need to load your
network driver as a module.
Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel should
also be supported by the boot disks. You may need to load your
network driver as a module.
Due to kernel limitations only the onboard network interfaces on
DECstations are supported, TurboChannel option network cards currently
do not work.
Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel is
also be supported by the boot disks. All network drivers are compiled
as modules so you need to load one first during the initial network
setup. The list of supported network devices is:
Channel to Channel (CTC) and ESCON connection (real or emulated)
OSA-2 Token Ring/Ethernet and OSA-Express Fast Ethernet (non-QDIO)
Inter-User Communication Vehicle (IUCV) — available for VM guests only
OSA-Express in QDIO mode, HiperSockets and Guest-LANs
The following network interface cards are supported directly by the
boot disks on Netwinder and CATS machines:
PCI-based NE2000
DECchip Tulip
The following network interface cards are supported directly by the
boot disks on RiscPCs:
Ether1
Ether3
EtherH
If your card is mentioned in the lists above, the complete installation
can be carried out from the network with no need for CD-ROMs or floppy
disks.
Any other network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel
should also be supported by the boot disks. You may need to load your
network driver as a module; this means that you will have to install
the operating system kernel and modules using some other media.