On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:30:35AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen > >> uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd. > > > > Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32 driver is not in the debian-installer net > > drivers ? > > I'd guess so. > > > It is in the nic-extra-modules, which is not part of the initrd, we will > > fix this, either move it to nic-modules or add the nic-extra-modules to > > the initrd. > > I think the pcnet32 driver is important enough for RS6000 PPC to have in
Yep, will be in the next upload. > nic-modules. I'd be careful not to make the initrd too big (by adding > nic-extra-modules) as some PRePs have difficulty with large boot I have gone this route though for now. If it make the initrd grow to much, we can always remove it again once the pcnet32 has moved to nic-modules. > images. I've seen conflicting reports about how big you can go, some > say 4MB, some 8MB. I've loaded quite large images on my 140 but I had > to muck about with firmware settings to make them work. I have similar problems here. > > Thanks for testing. Could you try again tomorrow or later ? > > Sure, let me know when a image with pcnet32 in it is available. Same as the one you used, should be in tomorrows daily build. Again, thanks for testing. Friendly, Sven Luther
