Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB
[CC'ing wnpp #218753]
Am Die, den 27.01.2004 schrieb Dermot Bradley um 05:07:
> The screen "Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules" gave a list of
> ethernet modules to pick from. I tried selecting "sk98lin" for the onboard
> Marvell Gigabit chip and got back "Error while running 'modprobe -v
> sk98lin'".
Can you send me the output of "lspci" and "lspci -n". So I can see what
PCI ID you card has.
>
> Running this modprobe by hand from the 2nd VT showed:
>
> insmod sk98lin
> Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.o
> insmod: init_module: sk98lin: No such device
> modprobe: failed to load module sk98lin
>
> From hunting about in Google I found:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2003/debian-wnpp-200311/msg00034.html
>
> which indicates patches to the sk98lin driver needed for 3rd party onboard
> Marvell chips, in my case: "Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter
> (Asus)"
>
> With the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe likely to be a popular motherboard it would
> make sense for the installer to cater for it.
AFAIK the d-i policy is to be based on herbert's official kernel-image.
So a d-i patched kernel is not an option. At the end of the installation
process d-i installs a kernel-image deb. This could lead to an
unbootable kernel if the d-i kernel was specially patched.
Is there any special reason why this patch is not included upstream?
IMHO this would be the best solution.
Gaudenz
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