Bug 10594 – Lack of NIC drivers on the Live CD 1.4_rc1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Svein Erik Brostigen 2002-11-11 12:36:00 UTC]

Before release of 1.4, it is extremly necessary to include as many NIC drivers
as possible. The current rc1 CD contains a very limited number of drivers and
causes problems when people need to install on hardware which contains a NIC not
supported by the Live CD.

Since getting e new Gentoo box connected to the net is imperativ to a
successfull installation, the CD should try to include every NIC supported by
the kernel.
The drivers are fairly small but it's vital that they exists.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-10 10:05:47 UTC]

They are there, just built in to the kernel.

[Comment 2 Svein Erik Brostigen 2002-12-10 16:55:56 UTC]

I'm sorry, but that is not the case. 
 
I was installing 1.4 on a Dell GX260 which uses the e1000 driver and it was NOT a part of the 
kernel, module or built-in. 
 
I had to use a second NIC to get the installation going. There are several postings at 
forums.gentoo.org about the lack of NIC drivers in 1.4. 
 
If you still think that all the necessary drivers are included, can you please provide a list of 
NIC's currently available on the Live 1.4 CD? 
 

[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 15:50:52 UTC]

Ah, you did not mention the specific driver missing in your bug report. The
kernel we used for the liveCD (a 2.4.19-xfs derivative) does not have support
for the e1000 (it is not in the stock 2.4.19 kernel, from what I can tell.) I
will assign this bug to lostlogic so that we can get the proper e1000 patches
added to our xfs-sources kernel that is used in the 1.4 release.

Lolo, once we have an xfs kernel with this support, you can assign this one back
to me and I'll roll up a new livecd support with said support included.

[Comment 4 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2003-01-09 15:17:50 UTC]

I don't believe this is a problem any more, if it is, reopen the bug.