Karanbir Singh wrote: > Fabian Arrotin wrote: >> I had to modify the installer initrd.img to include the atl2.ko module >> for the wired nic to install from my local mirror .. where do i store >> it ? on the wiki page itself, as an attachment ? a simple link to a >> tmp space on my website ? >> >> I'm now wondering what's the best way to include the atl2.ko module >> during setup : a rpm that will be fetched from centos extras (?) or a >> simple driverdisk ? >> >> Ideas & comments welcome ... > > I've been working on an alternate installer, which does not use anaconda > at all, for the eeepc since we need to change a lot of default stuff in > order to get the basic stuff working in a reasonable manner. Hmm, is that not too much work, especially when 5.3 and further releases show their heads ? > > Also, is this atl2 ko based on the one that I had built sometime back or > is this from the 2.x version ? if so, is it stable enough to rebase onto > in the 2.6.18 code ? It's still the v1 of the driver, so basically the same that you used .. except that i rebuilt it from http://repo.redhat-club.org/redhat/5/SRPMS/atl2-kmod-1.0.40.4-el5.rhc.1.src.rpm ... We tried with Manuel Wolfshant to have the v2 driver built on 2.6.18 but it didn't work (Manuel took contact with the devel guy but i think he had still no answer ) > > PS: please dont crosspost. Yeah, sorry for that (but of course i didn't intend to continue the discussion on the -docs list).. i think i should have divided my post in two : one for -docs regarding the created wiki page and the other one about the core discussion .. -- - Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."