On 06/29/2013 04:16 AM, Zind wrote: > hi all, > I am new to Gentoo. I came across some problems in the Gentoo > installation process. > > ... > > After several times of STFW, I can confirm it's a network adapter driver > support issue: lacks of coresponding network adapter drivers. > For the AR8161 network adapter, it requires the alx kernal module: alx.ko. > Previously, I thought I could at least compile this driver by myself, > but soon I found it lacks of build-essential packages, too. :-( >
You can try to use SystemRescueCD[1] (based on Gentoo) instead of the minimum install CD. The instructions are identical, but sometimes the SystemRescueCD is more up-to-date. [1] http://www.sysresccd.org/
