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Re: e1000 support in Debian [Was: Re: DPL Debate prepared questions list [Debian Policy Sucks]]



On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:01:28AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:39:45PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > > > So what do you people suggest in such cases:
> > > > 1) Intel 1000MT NIC sucks, throw it away ?
> > > > 2) Unh! Why don't you change to Debian Unstable ?
> > > > 3) Buddy! We are all volunteers. Go and roll your own kernel with the
> > > > patches ?
> > > > 4) Wait! That hardware isn't officially supported by us. Build only machines
> > > > which are known to work with Debian Stable?

> > > 5) etch beta 2 was released last week with support for your hardware

> > If this is the issue I think it is, sarge does support the hardware but the
> > kernel isn't configured to support large frames on it in GigE mode.  I'm not
> > aware that this issue has been resolved yet in the kernels for etch either;
> > the issue had earlier been clouded by concerns over the reliability of this
> > kernel configure option, owing to confusion with a similarly named option
> > for a different card.

> Would that really be *the* issue for a NAT box?

No, probably not.  I guess this is about some unrelated issue specific to a
particular e1000 model.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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