From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: I have a D-Link USB to ethernet adapter. It is not recognized by the current installer or drvnet.img. There is a working driver available and I'm using it now with version 9.0. Would you please include the driver in the next distribution. Also, is there a way I can somehow use this driver to install now? The driver is available from Dave Hollis at dhollis. It is ax8817x-2.4 and works with other usb to ethernet adapters as well. Thanks so much for your help and a speedy response! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-19.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the system with bootdisk.img and get to where it asks for how I'm going to install. 2.I tell it via ftp, intending to use the iso images on another machine on my network. 3.The drvnet.img disk is inserted, but nothing is recognized, nor is the adapter recognized in any other way. Actual Results: Was unable to install Redhat Linux 9.0 on my laptop Expected Results: The adapter should have been recognized and I should have been able to install via ftp. Additional info:
If a driver has not been included in the upstream kernel, we don't add it without a very good reason, and even then only as a temporary measure. If the author of the driver thinks it is not good enough to go upstream, we consider that a reason that it isn't good enough for our distribution, either... Basically, for us to maintain a large collection of drivers means that the collection would be constantly out of date. That's one of the points of having one upstream source: a single place where drivers are kept up to date. Jeff, do you know about this driver?
Driver has been in 2.4 mainline since June 2003.
The driver is present. USB network installation support is not implemented, however.
The driver itself (ax8817x.o) is in the Severn beta kernel, FWIW.