On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:31:10AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > I'm a recent convert to debian at home and I was considering switching > > to it for development at work. I've been tracking sarge weeklies with > > jigdo and lost my network device when the tg3 network driver was > > removed without warning. > > If someone removed the tg3 driver, it was stupid move. THe driver > contained an uneeded firmware. tg3 works fine with that removed, so tha > best thing would have been to patch tg3.c to remove that firmware. I believe that everybody involved was aware of this, but had neither understanding of the driver nor hardware with which to test, and concluded that a legal kernel was better. I expect a working patch would be gratefully received. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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