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Subject: Re: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE
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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> nfe exists, but you need to grab your sources _prior_ to booting up for
> the first time (can retrieve them by adding the source distributions),
> because the RELEASE kernel doesn't have the nfe driver, even though the
> STABLE and CURRENT snapshot ISO ones do.

Thanks - I did work out how to rebuild the kernel and it was fairly
painless in the end.  If I will only have to do one bodged installer for
6.2 before 7.0 includes the driver I want as standard, and then I
*don't* have to rebuild future releases, that should do for now.

cheers,

-- 
Matthew