Bug 480083 - No 8139too or 8139cp modules on boot.iso: can't do network installs with KVM
Summary: No 8139too or 8139cp modules on boot.iso: can't do network installs with KVM
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-14 23:15 UTC by James Wilkinson
Modified: 2009-01-18 20:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-18 20:24:01 UTC
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Description James Wilkinson 2009-01-14 23:15:18 UTC
Hi there.

My analysis:
It looks like boot.iso doesn't have all the network modules that the parent kernel RPM has. In particular, it seems like it doesn't have any drivers for a Realtek 8139 network card. Besides being popular in real life, this is what KVM and virt-manager emulate. This means that you can't use boot.iso to do a network install of Rawhide on a virt-manager guest.

Problem description:
I'm attempting to install Rawhide in a fully-virtualised machine using kvm and virt-manager. The host OS is a fully-updated Fedora 10. The guest OS boots, offers to check the media, enters X, displays the F10 splash screen, and then comes up with this error message:

Network Install Required

Your installation source is set to a network location, but no network devices were found on your system. To avoid a network installation, boot with the full DVD, full CD set, or do not pass a repo= parameter that specifies a network device.

The only option is "Exit Installer".

If I Ctrl-Alt-F2 to the shell, I get
lspci includes 
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139
C+ (rev 20)
lsmod | grep 8139 returns nothing

If I cd to 
/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.35.rc1.git4.fc11.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net
there are 35(gzipped) modules directly in that directory, by my counting, and no 8139 modules. If I download the kernel RPM separately, there are 70 ungzipped modules directly in the same directory.

Both host and guest are (Intel) x86_64.

Version-Release number of selected components (if applicable):
boot.iso as of 14-Jan-2009 07:53
kernel-2.6.29-0.35.rc1.git4.fc11.x86_64.rpm

Comment 1 Ronald Warsow 2009-01-15 09:39:43 UTC
same here (since weeks)

no LAN Network offered during install in an KVM/native installation. 

in native installation WLAN network is only offered as eth0, but without firmware for Prism54/p45. Feeding this firmware via usb stick was without success so far.

Today I see the above described message.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2009-01-16 21:27:01 UTC
Yes, a lot of network drivers are missing right now.  Jeremy just committed a fix for this earlier today, so they should show up in Rawhide once we do a new build of anaconda.

Comment 3 Ronald Warsow 2009-01-16 23:42:56 UTC
thx. I will stay tuned !

Comment 4 Ronald Warsow 2009-01-18 01:40:20 UTC
seems to be fixed, thx.

Comment 5 Mark McLoughlin 2009-01-18 20:24:01 UTC
Thanks for verifying


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