Gordon Farquharson wrote: > On 2/12/07, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > >The problem seems as simple as that the ipx4xx driver is *not* included in > >d-i, but is included in the installed kernel; so in the installer, the > >module is never loaded resulting in the USB adapter getting the eth0 name, > >but after a reboot the ipx4xx driver is found first, breaking the handling > >of persistent device names. > > Yup. The original reason it wasn't included in the installer is > because including it without the NPE-B microcode causes the NLSU2 > built-in ethernet adapter to be named eth0, and the installer, by > default, uses eth0 to provide the installation interface. This > situation makes the installer inaccessible to users without a serial > console attached to the NSLU2. Er, it is included in d-i: joey@kodama:~/src/d-i/packages/kernel/linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6/modules/arm-ixp4xx>grep ixp4xx nic-modules ixp4xx_mac ixp4xx_npe ixp4xx_qmgr -- see shy jo
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