[Bug 305516] Re: livecd missing Intel Gig-E network driver

[Brian Murray]

The desktop version of 8.04 is no longer supported and as such I am
marking this bug report as Won't Fix.

** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  livecd missing Intel Gig-E network driver

Status in “casper” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04.1 live cd and tried to boot my IBM Thinkpad
  T42 laptop. This laptop (and many other thinkpad laptops) has an Intel
  82540EP Gig-E wired network chip. The 8.04.1 livecd failed to load a
  network driver for the chip.  I also have a live cd from ubuntu 7.10
  and that release does successfully load a network driver on this same
  laptop. This chip is identified as the following from a lspci listing:

  02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet
  Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)

  I tried manually doing a modprobe of the igb and e1000e-ich9m drivers
  that were present on the 8.04.1 cd under
  /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-eeepc/ubuntu/ but neither of those seems to
  have worked for the 82540EP chip in this Thinkpad T42 laptop. When I
  boot the same laptop with the live cd from 7.10 the driver that gets
  loaded and seems to work for this chip is e1000.

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