Does not properly recognize via-rhine (kt-400) chipset network cards. Unable to install gentoo using this cd. The 1.2 livecd properly discovered and installed the correct modules to enable the onboard LAN card. On the 1.2 live cd via-rhine and mii are loaded as modules automatically by the pci-autodetect rather than built in as in 1.4.
I used the 1.4 CD w/ ut2003 to install and it worked fine, but when I compiled a new kernel using the gentoo-sources it wouldn't work. Dmesg showed the device being initialized properly, but no packets would go throught. A vanilla-sources kernel worked just fine tho. I'd like to run gentoo-sources because of all the extras. Any suggestions on how to make it work?
I'm joining this a little late, so I don't know any other info has been discussed, but what version of gentoo-sources was this? Does this still happen?
In some cases, it might be the specific LAN chip, rather than the VIA chipset revision. AFAIK, it's the VT6102 that works fine, but boards with the VT6103 do not. On at least one Biostar board (with KM-266 variant) with an onboard VT6103, it's mis-detected by the PCI utils; both lspci and proc show it as a VT6102. The via-rhine driver loads (but not mii), and ifconfig shows it working, but there's no traffic whatsoever. I'm not sure if this is what anyone is seeing here, since I have no status on the VT6103 support (if any) in the driver. Perhaps someone can confirm?
let us know if this is still an issue with the latest livecds
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
