On Tue, May 22, 2007 21:49, Blaisorblade wrote: > On martedì 22 maggio 2007, David Bull wrote: >> On Tue, May 22, 2007 02:36, Jeff Dike wrote: >> > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:20:59AM +0100, David Bull wrote: >> >> The Fedora Core installer appears in one of the xterm's and asks me >> to >> >> choose a language, a keyboard layout, and an installation method >> (cdrom, >> >> hard disk, nfs, ftp, or http). When I attempt to select one of the >> >> network installation methods I get a message saying "No driver found" >> >> and it then asks me to select a driver from a list, or use a driver >> >> disk. >> > >> > Is it maybe assuming that, in order to get a working network, you need >> > to tell it what driver runs your card? What's on the list that it >> > gives you? >> > >> > Jeff >> > >> > -- >> > Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com >> >> Shouldn't it just use the UML tuntap network driver built into the UML >> kernel? > > Yes, but you've hit an installer which is "too" smart and tries to > actually > detect the card, load the module and configure it. And its list does not > include any UML driver, obviously. In such situations, you can just try > faking or modifying the installer someway. > > If it just tries to load a network module and get success from modprobe, > even > an alias like > install ne2000 /bin/true > in /etc/modprobe.conf (if that's read by the initrd) might help. > >> The drivers list just brings up a long list of network card >> drivers such as 3com, intel express, ne2000, etc. If I try selecting any >> of those it says is can't find the module and asks me to select another >> driver. > >> If I boot the slackware guest using the same kernel then I can bring the >> networking up simply by logging in as root and doing "ifconfig eth0 >> 172.16.0.101 up". > > -- > Inform me of my mistakes, so I can add them to my list! > Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade > http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade >
I tried taking the initrd apart and unfortunatly there's no modprobe.conf. Also modprobe, insmod and rmmod were symlinks to /sbin/installer which I tried changing to /bin/true but it didn't make any difference. I also put a copy if ifconfig inside the initrd and got it to start /bin/sh rather than launch straight into the installer. I managed to use ifconfig to being eth0 up successfully but the installer still kept asking me to select a network driver :-( Guess I'll continue googling for the time being... - David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
