I would like to install Gentoo onto my brandnew home-built system but it is not possible in any reasonable way. This is caused by outdated or perhaps misconfigured installation software. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create LiveDVD or Install Minimal CD install media (USB stick) 2.Boot from it 3.Try to install Gentoo Actual Results: Some of my hardware is not recognized, especially the network card The MoBo is Asrock B85M-ITX containing a Intel® B85 chipset and a Qualcomm Atheros AR8171 network interface. Windows 8 installs easily. The problem boils down to the kernel driver for my network card not having been compiled as as module (CONFIG_ALX is not set). On further exploration I discovered that the Gentoo LiveDVD is already a year old and the last Install Minimal CD more than 2 months. With new hardware such as mine I wonder why development seems to have stopped?
2 months is not very old. There is a known issue with the autobuild process for the minimal install cd, which should be fixed soon, so new isos should start appearing weekly again. You have already opened a separate bug for the alx driver (this is a good thing), so I don't know that there's anything to be done for this bug.
Actually this is a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495134 ***
(In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #1) > 2 months is not very old. There is a known issue with the autobuild process > for the minimal install cd, which should be fixed soon, so new isos should > start appearing weekly again. You have already opened a separate bug for > the alx driver (this is a good thing), so I don't know that there's anything > to be done for this bug. In fact something weird happened when filing this bug so I appear to have entered it twice accidentally. One of these was renamed by Jorge Manuel, which is fine with me. After this I will probably continue on the other bug. By the way, two months is imho a long time when you expect weekly autobuilds… More to the point perhaps, I would expect Gentoo to have the ambition to support the latest hardware. Anyway, the problem is now clear to me.
