On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 19:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 16:03 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > When I upgraded my laptop from Wheezy to Jessie the JME driver failed. > > > > When I was running Wheezy the Debian-supplied version did not work at > > all, leaving me with no Ethernet connection. So I would routinely > > replace the JME driver supplied by Debian with one from JMicron which > > I compiled myself. > > > > A week or so ago, when I upgraded to Jessie, the Debian-supplied driver > > again failed, but the driver which I have been using with Wheezy does not > > compile under Jessie's updated build system. It would be much easier to > > switch to a different distribution than to find out why it won't compile > > and fix it, so I trawled the 'net with the search engines and found this > > Ubuntu list post which describes a workaround: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/880316 > > > > This workaround is to reduce the speed at which the interface operates > > from 1Gbit/s to 100Mbit/s. Obviously to find this post I had to use a > > different a computer, since mine wasn't able to connect to the network. Also this bug report is about the alx driver, so if you have anything further to say about jme then open a new bug report. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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