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Bug 462760 - sys-kernel/alx? - Qualcomm Atheros AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver
Summary: sys-kernel/alx? - Qualcomm Atheros AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
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Reported: 2013-03-23 09:17 UTC by Zitian Li
Modified: 2013-07-09 07:12 UTC (History)
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Description Zitian Li 2013-03-23 09:17:16 UTC 
"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
Comment 1 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev 2013-06-22 09:31:27 UTC 
Why do you close this as OBSOLETE? Is this driver merged into vanilla kernel?
Comment 2 Zitian Li 2013-06-30 23:08:50 UTC 
Yes, this driver has been merged into the kernel (version 3.10) by the upstream.