Comment 0 for bug 1950996

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Tommy Nevtelen (dal) wrote :

Initramfs taken from the live iso for PXE boot does not contain USB NIC drivers which makes PXE installation/netboot impossible via usb.

"kernel/drivers/net/usb" is empty and needs to be included in the initramfs build.

As most modern thin laptops lack physical rj45 ethernet this is a big issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.136ubuntu6.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-64.72-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-64-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Nov 15 16:47:45 2021
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-11 (552 days ago)