[lucid] [atl2] ethernet adaptor fails to be detected in live installer (for PXE boot)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

I'm trying to netboot a system (Eee PC 900) which uses the atl2 driver to handle its network card.

The system boots from the network successfully and properly loads the kernel, but fails to detect the NIC from inside the initrd image if booted from the daily lucid desktop image (20100401).

The system boots completely and completes the installer when started using the daily server image.

Attached is the output of 'lspci -vnvn'.

[Ameet Paranjape (ameetp)]

> The system boots completely and completes the installer when started using the daily server image.

Hi Mathieu,

Is the network card detected and work properly post installation in the successful scenario given above?

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Yes, in ubuntu-server it works fine. It is actually how I retrieved the
information attached.

On Apr 1, 2010 6:25 PM, "Ameet Paranjape" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The system boots completely and completes the installer when started using
the daily server image....
Hi Mathieu,

Is the network card detected and work properly post installation in the
successful scenario given above?

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Bug description: I'm trying to netboot a system (Eee PC 900) which uses the
atl2 driver to handle i...

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Ameet, the system also boots and recognizes the network adapter properly in today's alternate image, but still fails with today's desktop image.

[Seth Forshee (sforshee)]

Mathieu,

Is this problem present in the lucid release image?

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

I can confirm this issue is still present, we're trying to install Lucid on this machine (using 10.04.1), the desktop image still doesn't install.

Using the alternate image works as expected.

Let me know if we can provide more information.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

This issue still present as of Lucid 10.04.3, the system needs the alternate image to install, as the desktop one fails as mentioned previously.

Moving back to last status of Triaged :)

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Just out of curiosity, does this issue still exist for Quantal? I'm removing the rls-q-incoming tag for now until we have confirmation.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Hi Leann,

I just tested and the Quantal desktop installer boots up and works just fine, so the issue is not present on Quantal anymore.

Of course, we have to use the i386 installer rather than 64-bit as the CPU doesn't support that.

Thanks!

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, this bug report is being closed due to Daniel's comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/553609/comments/12 regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.