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Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?



On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 08:44:57AM +0000, Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:54:55 -0400
> Kent Dorfman <kent.dorfman766@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > title says it all.
> > 
> > There are no ethernet drivers in the modules directory for the
> > netinstall image, other than a single broadcomm file...and no, it's
> > not an obscure nic that requires custom firmware.  It needs the humble
> > e1000 driver.

This is pretty strange: the e1000 driver should be part of the base
kernel package:

  tomas@trotzki:~$ find /lib/modules -name "*e1000*"
  /lib/modules/4.9.0-11-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000
  /lib/modules/4.9.0-11-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.ko
  /lib/modules/4.9.0-11-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e
  /lib/modules/4.9.0-11-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko
  /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000
  /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.ko
  /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e
  /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko

and

  tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko
  linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64: /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko
  linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko
  linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64-unsigned: /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko

Are you sure e1000 is missing in your installation?

Cheers
-- t

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