Re: "no link beat found" on digital alpha-station 255

[Philip Kendall <pak21@srcf.ucam.org>]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:07:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> Anyway, since you're running 2.4.27, your experiences with the drivers
> unfortunately don't tell us anything about how things should be structured
> for etch, which uses a 2.6.15 kernel in the installer with all the bugfixes
> and regressions that such a jump implies.  By any chance, would you be
> willing to load a 2.6.15 kernel on the system (from etch, requiring a few
> other package upgrades), to test whether your networking works with the
> current default driver selections?

Sure -- I happily flattened the machine on Monday, so flattening it
again isn't too much of a problem :-)

Cheers,

Phil

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