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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:47:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CEF368.3080403@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+KygtO-XhOe2TYb0nvV0j=-9m6bd8GCjwB05vsZ4Jw25r9qug@mail.gmail.com>

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/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-29 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-29  8:16 [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported Zind
2013-06-29  8:52 ` the
2013-06-29  9:30   ` Zind
2013-06-29 10:10     ` the
2013-06-29  8:57 ` Davide De Prisco
2013-06-29  9:20   ` Zind
2013-06-29  9:27     ` Randolph Maaßen
2013-06-29 11:03 ` Wang Xuerui
2013-06-29 14:47 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2013-07-01  9:34   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-03 15:59     ` Zind
2013-06-30  4:50 ` Stroller
2013-07-03 16:28   ` Zind
2013-07-04 10:10     ` Stroller
     [not found] <lpYxX-291-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <lpZaF-2If-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <lpZDH-3pi-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <lpZDH-3pi-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2013-07-01  6:15       ` Gregory Shearman
2013-07-03 16:32         ` Zind
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-05  6:48 Thomas Mueller
2013-07-05 12:38 ` Stroller

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