[gentoo-user] Re: can't load driver of vmware network on livecd 2008-0-r1

[fei huang]

perhaps the pcnet32 modules has a known bug around, I fixed the problem by
configuring VMware to simulate a "e1000" ethernet card. hope this would help
to those noobs.
tks

fei

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:42 PM, fei huang <daniel.huangfei@×××××.com> wrote:

> hi:  since I used to install Gentoo through a Universal CD on x86, there's
> no need to prepare a network connection before my own kernel is ready,  as
> to livecd2008, network has to be configured to download a stage3 tarball, I
> started my livecd in vmware server, lspci shows my card is :
>    Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32
> LANCE] (rev 10)
>
> somehow, loading the module results in error as follow:
>  SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpected result 0xfffffffb,
> srclength 131072, avail_in 722, avail_out 0
> SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xb2d0
> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache block [2ca5fcb]
> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2ca5fcb, size e307
> WARNING: Cound not read
> '/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/mii.ko': Input/output
> error
> SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpected result 0xfffffffd,
> srclength 131072, avail_in 0, avail_out 4481
> SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xb24a
> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2c89c32, size 8c67
> Module len 131072 truncated
> FATEL: Error inserting pcnet32
> (/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/pcnet32.ko): Invalid
> module format
>
> seems the module is invalid, but how this could happen? why the card is not
> configured automatically by the livecd?
>
> uname -a returns:
>
> Linux livecd 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Thu Jun 26 18:36:15 UTC 2008 i686
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> any clue for the error?
>
> thanks
> fei
>
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