perhaps the pcnet32 modules has a known bug around, I fixed the problem by configuring VMware to simulate a "e1000" ethernet card. hope this would help to those noobs. tks
fei On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:42 PM, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi: since I used to install Gentoo through a Universal CD on x86, there's > no need to prepare a network connection before my own kernel is ready, as > to livecd2008, network has to be configured to download a stage3 tarball, I > started my livecd in vmware server, lspci shows my card is : > Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 > LANCE] (rev 10) > > somehow, loading the module results in error as follow: > SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpected result 0xfffffffb, > srclength 131072, avail_in 722, avail_out 0 > SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xb2d0 > SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache block [2ca5fcb] > SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2ca5fcb, size e307 > WARNING: Cound not read > '/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/mii.ko': Input/output > error > SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpected result 0xfffffffd, > srclength 131072, avail_in 0, avail_out 4481 > SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xb24a > SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2c89c32, size 8c67 > Module len 131072 truncated > FATEL: Error inserting pcnet32 > (/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/pcnet32.ko): Invalid > module format > > seems the module is invalid, but how this could happen? why the card is not > configured automatically by the livecd? > > uname -a returns: > > Linux livecd 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Thu Jun 26 18:36:15 UTC 2008 i686 > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > any clue for the error? > > thanks > fei > >
