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Bug 219874 - No ethernet on booted media (modules fail to load)
Summary: No ethernet on booted media (modules fail to load)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LiveCD/DVD (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 219972 220199 220947 220977 221249 222813 223127 223395 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-04-30 20:03 UTC by Gerard van Vuuren
Modified: 2008-07-06 17:44 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
/var/log/dmesg (dmesg,30.08 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-30 22:09 UTC, Gerard van Vuuren
Details

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Description Gerard van Vuuren 2008-04-30 20:03:42 UTC
Net-setup eth0 doesn't see (recognize) my marvell gigabit hardware.
According to the kernel .config that I found at /etc/kernel both the sky2 and skge modules should be available.
Modprobing either one gives "module not found."
lsmod doesn't show any net related modules.
W/o internet there's no sense in continuing.
Gerard.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I expected internet to work right away or at least with net-setup.
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-30 20:06:09 UTC
What does 'dmesg | grep eth' show?
Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-30 20:07:47 UTC
Also, the Installer is designed to do a networkless installation.  There's 0 need for network on the LiveDVD to complete an install.
Comment 3 Gerard van Vuuren 2008-04-30 22:09:38 UTC
Created attachment 151472 [details]
/var/log/dmesg

I tried dmesg | grep 'eth' both in a console and in an xterm but get garbled characters.
I used mc to copy /var/log/dmesg to my home directory.
As you can see there is no ethx.
Gerard.
Comment 4 Gerard van Vuuren 2008-05-01 18:49:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=151472) [edit]
> /var/log/dmesg
> 
> I tried dmesg | grep 'eth' both in a console and in an xterm but get garbled
> characters.
> I used mc to copy /var/log/dmesg to my home directory.
> As you can see there is no ethx.
> Gerard.
> 

I d/led the 2008 beta2 livecd and booted it.
Same problem.
Gerard.
Comment 5 Krzysztof Olędzki 2008-05-03 10:23:58 UTC
One more idea: what does 'lspci -nn|grep Eth' show?
Comment 6 Gerard van Vuuren 2008-05-03 11:59:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> One more idea: what does 'lspci -nn|grep Eth' show?
> 

This is what I get:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4362] (rev 20)
This is correct.On my present Gentoo install I use the sky2 module.
Note that both the livedvd and cd can't connect to internet.
Gerard.
Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-07 06:06:00 UTC
*** Bug 220199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-07 06:06:56 UTC
*** Bug 219972 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-07 07:25:47 UTC
I r teh gud spellar!
Comment 10 Gerard van Vuuren 2008-05-07 09:39:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> I r teh gud spellar!
> 

What does that mean in plain English?
Gerard.
Comment 11 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-07 14:14:09 UTC
It was a joke making fun of the typo that he made in the summary.
Comment 12 Pritpaul Mahal 2008-05-08 07:29:22 UTC
I'm seeing this too on the i686 beta2 livedvd.  On mine it appears that the modules directory "cuts out" early, with nothing after "media"

ls /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers shows (reformatted because I'm retyping it):
acpi ata atm auxdisplay base block bluetooth char clocksource connector cpufreq crypto firmware hid hwmon i2c ide ieee1394 infiniband input isdn kvm leds md media

and that's it.  The rest of the modules directory tree seems a bit short too (there's no kernel/sound for example)
Comment 13 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-08 17:15:12 UTC
*** Bug 220947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-08 23:38:14 UTC
*** Bug 220977 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-24 15:01:30 UTC
*** Bug 223395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-24 15:02:06 UTC
*** Bug 223127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-24 15:02:29 UTC
*** Bug 222813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-24 15:03:51 UTC
*** Bug 221249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-06 17:44:20 UTC
This should be fixed in 2008.0, which is now released.