Devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 24

[Gordon Schumacher]

Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:

> I see from the mailing list archives that late November a load of drivers 
> were removed from the kernel including CONFIG_PCNET32.
> 
> Is there any chance that one could be reinstated? I'd like to run the 
> emulation using vmware rather than qemu, and there is currently no way to 
> get the network working on vmware as it doesn't emulate the same network 
> cards as qemu.

I'll second that, and it confirms that I was indeed far too 
sleep-deprived when I was last playing with the OLPC image as it didn't 
even occur to me to check whether the module existed on disk.  I've 
clearly been spoiled working in server-sized environments for too long, 
hehe...