On 30 Oct 2009, at 16:48, Philip Webb wrote:
091030 Stroller wrote:
On 30 Oct 2009, at 02:41, Philip Webb wrote:
I'm stuck in trying to install Gentoo on my new EeePC 1005HA .
There seems to be no easily accessible driver for the Ethernet
controller,
which is 'Atheros AR8132' (shown via 'lspci').
A very casual Google suggests
that this card uses the the atl1e kernel driver / module. EG:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy-lum.git;a=commit;h=949e7063204f568027fa7783c8562ceb32b95a25
says: Add support Atheros ... AR8132 ethernet NICs
CONFIG_ATL1E is the wossisname. Have you tried this driver?
Yes, as I said in detail in my OP : 'insmod atl1e' works,
but as before 'pppoe-start' times out when trying to connect to my
ISP;
this is using the Gentoo minimal install ISO , which has that driver.
As I also said in my OP, I can't compile a driver (or kernel)
using the install system, as it doesn't have 'make'.
I'm really sorry. I skipped over that, because atl1e is part of the in-
tree sources here (gentoo-sources, since at least august).
Surely you can put the stage4 on a USB stick, untar it to the laptop,
and then have make once you're chrooted in?
Stroller.
