We're having problems getting the latest version of Clonezilla to recognise the onboard Attansic L1 LAN card on the motherboard of our Asus PCs. Until a new version of Clonezilla compatible with this LAN card is released, it seems we're a bit stuck! We require a working, compiled and compatible fileset which can be uploaded onto a USB memory stick and booted as normal.
Anyone who can help us would not only save our sanity, but will be rewarded financially! There's £50 into the Paypal account of anyone who can help us!!
Any questions please post here.
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Do you know which version of Clonezilla Live that you had download and tested ?
I had been tested onboard Attansic L1 LAN card on the motherboard of our Asus PCs for DRBL(Diskless Remote Boot Linux) last month. I'm not sure that did it already supported by Clonezilla Live Testing version or not, but it should be a little problem of Attansic L1 LAN card driver. According to the official Attansic L1 LAN card driver project (check http://atl1.sf.net ), the atl1 driver was released as part of kernel version 2.6.21 on April 27, 2007, and is now part of the mainline kernel. So if you are familiar to Linux and can understand the procedure listed in clonezilla-live document ( see http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/#make_clonezilla_live ), you can install new kernel and fix this problem.
If you can wait until Dec. 24, I'll try to test USB Booting on real machine.
I had a quick check about the linux kernel version of Clonezilla Live Testing version.
It's already 2.6.22-3-486, and I can found atl1 driver in /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486/kernel/drivers/net/atl1/atl1.ko
So after you boot in to Clonezilla Live Testing version, just type the command
$ modprobe atl1
then check if dmesg show any message like "eth0: ...."
Due to some compatibility of USB Drive on real machine with Attansic L1 onboard LAN card,
I've a quick test of Clonezilla Live 1.0.7-16 not current testing version (1.0.8-3).
Indeed, there might need more hacking of current Clonezilla Live to support ATL1.
I found the kernel is 2.6.22-3-486, and `lspci` command can not identify the Attansic L1 chip.
$ cat /live_media/Clonezilla-Live-Version
clonezilla-live-1.0.7-16
$ uname -a
Linux live 2.6.22-3-486 #1 Wed Oct 31 15:39:17 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
$ modprobe atl1
$ lsmod | grep atl1
atl1 31628 0
mii 5376 1 atl1
$ dmesg | grep eth
(no result of eth0 like booting message)
$
So I'll have a try to build a Live CD with newer pciids
and check if the ATL1 LAN card will work or not.
Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang
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We're having problems getting the latest version of Clonezilla to recognise the onboard Attansic L1 LAN card on the motherboard of our Asus PCs. Until a new version of Clonezilla compatible with this LAN card is released, it seems we're a bit stuck! We require a working, compiled and compatible fileset which can be uploaded onto a USB memory stick and booted as normal.
Anyone who can help us would not only save our sanity, but will be rewarded financially! There's £50 into the Paypal account of anyone who can help us!!
Any questions please post here.
Do you know which version of Clonezilla Live that you had download and tested ?
I had been tested onboard Attansic L1 LAN card on the motherboard of our Asus PCs for DRBL(Diskless Remote Boot Linux) last month. I'm not sure that did it already supported by Clonezilla Live Testing version or not, but it should be a little problem of Attansic L1 LAN card driver. According to the official Attansic L1 LAN card driver project (check http://atl1.sf.net ), the atl1 driver was released as part of kernel version 2.6.21 on April 27, 2007, and is now part of the mainline kernel. So if you are familiar to Linux and can understand the procedure listed in clonezilla-live document ( see http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/#make_clonezilla_live ), you can install new kernel and fix this problem.
If you can wait until Dec. 24, I'll try to test USB Booting on real machine.
I had a quick check about the linux kernel version of Clonezilla Live Testing version.
It's already 2.6.22-3-486, and I can found atl1 driver in /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486/kernel/drivers/net/atl1/atl1.ko
So after you boot in to Clonezilla Live Testing version, just type the command
$ modprobe atl1
then check if dmesg show any message like "eth0: ...."
$ dmesg | grep eth0
You can download Clonezilla Live USB version from
http://free.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/testing/clonezilla-live-1.0.8-3.zip
It's just release Dec. 12. Maybe you can try it first.
DRBL/Clonezilla Co-Developer Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang
Due to some compatibility of USB Drive on real machine with Attansic L1 onboard LAN card,
I've a quick test of Clonezilla Live 1.0.7-16 not current testing version (1.0.8-3).
Indeed, there might need more hacking of current Clonezilla Live to support ATL1.
I found the kernel is 2.6.22-3-486, and `lspci` command can not identify the Attansic L1 chip.
The result of `lspci` show that
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 1969:1048 (rev b0)
I did testing with following command
$ cat /live_media/Clonezilla-Live-Version
clonezilla-live-1.0.7-16
$ uname -a
Linux live 2.6.22-3-486 #1 Wed Oct 31 15:39:17 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
$ modprobe atl1
$ lsmod | grep atl1
atl1 31628 0
mii 5376 1 atl1
$ dmesg | grep eth
(no result of eth0 like booting message)
$
So I'll have a try to build a Live CD with newer pciids
and check if the ATL1 LAN card will work or not.
Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang
Peter, this is really a cool idea! :)
Peter,
Maybe you can give this one a try:
http://www.stevenshiau.org/misc/clonezilla/ubuntu-based/clonezilla-live-20071228c.iso
This is a clonezilla live based on Ubuntu 7.10. It might support your NIC.
BTW, this is still in beta status, some bugs are expected.
Please let us know the results.