On 2/25/07, Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> wrote:
How about the following idea for a quick and simple workaround to this problem (it is based on something Steve suggested earlier in the thread). Include the ixp4xx NPE driver modules in both the official and unofficial installer images and modify oldsys-preseed with the patch below.
I have tested the installer (revision 45431) both with and without the NPE-B microcode and everything worked fine on my setup. I also tested the case where the user may have both a USB to Ethernet adapter and the NPE-B microcode, and everything worked. For these tests, I told the installer to use packages from unstable to work around #412572 because the fix hadn't hit testing by the time I started yesterday and I was too lazy to recompile apex with a different kernel command line. All my tests have been using a static IP address which is configured in the NSLU2 flash. I should probably try a DHCP served address just to make sure that it doesn't change anything. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson