"alx" is descripted as follows: "Qualcomm Atheros(R) AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver". For a example, we can get it from here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.8.3/compat-drivers-3.8.3-2-snpu.tar.bz2 And we can find "alx" in "./compat-drivers-3.8.3-2-snpu/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx" after uncompressing the archive. Without this ethernet driver, it isn't very convenient for its user to use gentoo. And if possible, please add it into LiveCD so that we can install gentoo with wired network. :-) Reproducible: Always
Why do you close this as OBSOLETE? Is this driver merged into vanilla kernel?
Yes, this driver has been merged into the kernel (version 3.10) by the upstream.
This is the commit (2013-06-17): https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ab69bde6b2e9c37456eeb0051a185446336aef9f