76841 – minimal Live CD for alpha missing ethernet driver for via-rhine

Bug 76841 - minimal Live CD for alpha missing ethernet driver for via-rhine

Summary: minimal Live CD for alpha missing ethernet driver for via-rhine

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	Alpha Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team

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Reported:	2005-01-05 18:59 UTC by MTO
Modified:	2006-01-17 05:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description MTO 2005-01-05 18:59:53 UTC

I am unable to gentoo on my machine because the boot cd does not include a driver for the via-rhine ethernet card. The gentoo install docs suggest that this be reported as a bug.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot
2.insmod via-rhine
3.pull out hair.

Actual Results:  
failure to load via-rhine driver prevents me from actually doing an "emerge system"


given that flash drives and floppies are available, it should be possible to put
such drivers up for download, and not need to include them on the boot cd.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-06 05:22:29 UTC

This is on the 2004.3-r1 CD, correct?

Comment 2 Thomas Cort (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-12 05:55:29 UTC

Have you tried the 2005.1 livecd?

Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-17 05:23:48 UTC

# grep VIA_RHINE config-alpha-2.*
config-alpha-2.4.30:CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y
config-alpha-2.4.30:# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO is not set
config-alpha-2.6.11.8:CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y
config-alpha-2.6.11.8:# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO is not set

It is enabled in 2005.1's CD, so I am marking this as RESOLVED-FIXED.