Bug#283769: loads wrong modile for hppa ethernet
Package: discover1-data
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
In two installation reports, we see problems with common decchip cards
on hppa and discover1. In #282814, hw-detect has to prompt for the
ethernet driver to load since discover1 tells it to load de4x5, which is
not available in the d-i initrd. In #283754, the 2.4 kernel, which has
tulip built in, crashes when discover loads de4x5 over top of it during
second stage boot.
It really looks like de4x5 is not the right module to load on hppa at
all, and also it seems that the cards affected are very common on hppa
systems. According to others, de4x5 _is_ the right thing to load, for
the same PCI ids on other arches like alpha. This is a mess. Can
discover's behavior be made to vary by architecture in any sane way, and
if not is there any reasonable way to hack it into doing the right
thing?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
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see shy jo
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