Re: No ethernet service during install

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 09:06:31PM -0400, Robby Zambito wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 05:03:13PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > That's unfortunate. Can you tell us what card it is? Ethernet (at least 
> > gigabit and slower) is usually supported by linux-libre, so I'm curious to 
> > know which card is missing support.
> 
> lspci says that it's a Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
> card.

Thanks for the details. Googling, I found some discussions about this
card, including this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/4wh3gu/is_the_broadcom_bcm5709_chipset_no_longer/

I believe this is the Linux configuration option / driver:

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/BNX2.html

However, since it appears that this driver is not free software,
linux-libre will have disabled it and it won't be supported within GNU
Guix.