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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:21 +0000 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years |
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> > that wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box |
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> > on any old arb Linux system. |
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> When I bought my Asus P5B-E board last year, the drivers for the |
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> Attansic L1 gigabit NIC hadn't made it into the kernel and no live CD |
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> would enable it. I ended up putting a spare PCI NIC in to install |
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> Gentoo, then patching the kernel to enable the on-board one. |
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> It appeared in the next kernel release, so is not problem now, but |
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> that was less than a year ago. |
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Something similar to that I was referring myself: less than a year ago |
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some cheap realtek model was not kernel supported. I was lucky though: |
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only after 2 weeks it got in to the mm kernel(or was it git?) |
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