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

["Rodrigo Campos" <rodrigocc@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> 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

Cool, thanks a lot!

I think you can close this bug too =)




Thanks again :)
Rodrigo