Public bug reported:
I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04.1 live cd and tried to boot my IBM Thinkpad T42
laptop. This laptop (and many other thinkpad laptops) has an Intel
82540EP Gig-E wired network chip. The 8.04.1 livecd failed to load a
network driver for the chip. I also have a live cd from ubuntu 7.10 and
that release does successfully load a network driver on this same
laptop. This chip is identified as the following from a lspci listing:
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
I tried manually doing a modprobe of the igb and e1000e-ich9m drivers
that were present on the 8.04.1 cd under
/lib/modules/2.6.24-21-eeepc/ubuntu/ but neither of those seems to have
worked for the 82540EP chip in this Thinkpad T42 laptop. When I boot the
same laptop with the live cd from 7.10 the driver that gets loaded and
seems to work for this chip is e1000.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- livecd missing network Intel Gig-E driver
+ livecd missing Intel Gig-E network driver
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livecd missing Intel Gig-E network driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/305516
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