Building custom kernel with support for exotic ethernet card
Hi,
First of all, what I'm trying to do is a network install of Ubuntu. The problem is that the default kernel doesn't support the NIC card of the clients. I got the driver(source) from Realtek. The NIC model is RTL8101E, a new gigabit card. My first attempt to solve the problem was to compile the driver as a module and somehow load the module by passing parameters to the kernel at startup. Sounds like that's not possible.
2nd attempt -> build a custom kernel along with the driver I got from Realtek. The problem is... I couldn't figure out how to do it.
How is that supposed to be done?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastien
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