Bug 207622 – Marvell Network Controller not supported by kernel

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Ryan Fantus 2008-01-26 22:45:06 UTC]

New Intel MacBooks, made after November 2007, are incompatible with Gentoo livecd's, as far as networking.  Would it be possible to add the Marvell network drivers to the 2008.0 release?  There is another possible solution, building 'SysKonnect Yukon2' into the kernel, as long as it's newer than the 2.6.23-R3.  Thanks.

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-01-26 22:52:00 UTC]

I know I asked for the kernel CONFIG_* option :P

Please look it up and post it on the bug to reduce the work we have to do :)

[Comment 2 Ryan Fantus 2008-01-27 03:10:57 UTC]

I'll be more than happy to find the CONFIG_* option in about a week, I don't have access to the MacBook until then, sorry.  Not sure which is easier, but on next Friday or Saturday I'll be able to figure it out.

[Comment 3 Vyacheslav V Dobromyslov 2008-02-20 13:37:37 UTC]

I have this problem with my Samsung R60 laptop. It's equipped with Marvell LAN Adapter. To solve this problem I had to install official driver patches from syskonnect and manually patch my fresh kernel.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-04-08 21:37:34 UTC]

Can someone verify if this is fixed with the 2008.0 Beta 1 media?

[Comment 5 Vyacheslav V Dobromyslov 2008-04-09 10:30:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Can someone verify if this is fixed with the 2008.0 Beta 1 media?
> 

This bug is fixed in new kernels 2.6.24+

[Comment 6 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-07-12 17:04:45 UTC]

This should be fixed in 2008.0 final.