Bug#270376: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386: PCMCIA Nic stops working after upgradin g to 2.6.6/7/8
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386
Version: 2.6.8-2
Severity: important
I have a 3c589 NIC that does not work in any of 2.6.6/7/8. I have
downloaded the most recent versions of these kernels from the debian
archive and they don't work. Additionally I downloaded 2.6.0/2/3/4/5
from snapshot.debian.net to determine exactly when the breakage occured.
Below are the results I found:
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 -- No DHCP Response
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-386 -- No DHCP Response
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1-386 -- No DHCP Response
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1-386 -- Works
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.4-1-386 -- Works
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-1-386 -- Kernel Panic/Oops
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2-1-386 -- Kernel Panic/Oops
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-1-386 -- Kernel Panic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 -- Works
On the 2.6.6/7/8 kernels the network card appears to be brought up
properly however DHCP requests and discovers are unanswered leaving the
system in a state without a network. I've marked this severity important
as the 3c589 is a rather common nic in my experiance. I have run lspci
-vvv under the variout kernels and will send those along to this
bugreport once I get a bug number. At present this bug makes the 2.6
kernel in sarge unusable for me as the network just doesn't work.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management
utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.74 tools to create initrd image
for p
ii module-init-tools 3.1-pre5-6 tools for managing Linux kernel
mo
-- no debconf information
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