Bug#500065: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Please add support for Attansic Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:10:01PM -0200, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:25:08PM -0300, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> >> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
> >> Version: 2.6.26-5
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >>
> >> Hi, my mother (Asus P5LD2-X) has an Attansic Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit
> >> Ethernet Adapter onboard but I am not able to use it with current 2.6.26 kernel.
> >>
> >> I found a patch at: http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/, and applied it to
> >> vanilla 2.6.26.2 (it applied cleany) and make my network card work ok. I am
> >> using the kernel with this patch applied since a month ago and with no problem
> >> at all.
> >
> > For Lenny you can use the modules built by linux-modules-extra-2.6:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-modules-extra-2.6.html
> >
> 
> Sorry, I saw this after reporting :S
> 
> Just curious, is it possible to use them with lenny netinstall ?

I guess you could integrate the source package as outlined in the
docs below, but it's probably easier to fetch them from a USB stick
or floppy:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetInstWithThirdPartyNetworkDriver

Cheers,
        Moritz