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Bug 67839

Summary: Livecd 2004.2 Does not detect SIS900 Ethernet card
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Steve Graham <support>
Component: EverythingAssignee: Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Steve Graham 2004-10-16 19:31:30 UTC
Liveboot CD 2004.2 did not detect SIS900 ethernet on ECS 755-A2 Motherboard.
After trying several things what I did to resolve the problem was very simple
Modprobe SIS900
Then the card was listed when entering lsmod
run the net-setup eth0
and all is well - bada-bing-bada-boom

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Detected the SIS900 On board ethernet....
Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-21 22:07:40 UTC
Try one of the -test series livecd's at /experimental/x86/livecd/x86 on your favorite mirror.
Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-11-15 10:35:58 UTC
Test 2004.3 and see if this has been fixed