Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > When I try to autodetect the ethernet, it identifies as eepro100, > > which is correct. However, the eepro100 wasn't found. It also > > correctly detected the built-in wireless as orinoco_pci, also not > > found. > > I read this to mean that the HW detection step is done correctly, but > the kernel modules are missing on the floppy. This means that the > hw-detect package work as it should, and that this problem should be > fixed in the floppy build step when choosing kernel module udebs to > include on the floppy. In fact neither of these modules is included in any kernel udebs. The e100 module is included, AFAIK this is an alternate driver for the same card (intel EtherExpress Pro/100). I'm not sure why Herbert Xu chose one over the other; I have heard of the eepro100 driver not working well sometimes, but great other times; and the difference may be moot for the installer. If there's a good reason to go with the e100 driver, I suppose Herbert can tell us and ethdetect can be changed to try to use it instead of the eepro100. Otherwise, I'd tend toward swapping the eepro100 driver into the nic-modules udeb. It's 40k smaller anyway! I don't know how common orinoco_pci cards are (orinoco_cs is of course, very common). I have added orinoco_pci to nic-extra-modules for the next release. -- see shy jo
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