On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:21 +0000 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years > > that wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box > > on any old arb Linux system. > > When I bought my Asus P5B-E board last year, the drivers for the > Attansic L1 gigabit NIC hadn't made it into the kernel and no live CD > would enable it. I ended up putting a spare PCI NIC in to install > Gentoo, then patching the kernel to enable the on-board one. > > It appeared in the next kernel release, so is not problem now, but > that was less than a year ago. Something similar to that I was referring myself: less than a year ago some cheap realtek model was not kernel supported. I was lucky though: only after 2 weeks it got in to the mm kernel(or was it git?) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
