Hello, the current 2.6.8 kernel got some drivers removed, because they contain firmware hexdumps [1][2][3]. Since only a few ramdom drivers where removed, and not all drivers containing firmware hexdumps, this practice is discriminatory against users who want to install and run debian on concerned hardware, among it acenic and tg3 network cards, and qlogic fibrechannel controllers. The kernel team is preparing a soulution for etch, in form of a kernel-source-nonfree package containing all the components we cannot diustribute in main according to GR 2004-003 anymore, but this solution is not for sarge. Therefore, the pruned drivers should be readded to kernel-source-2.6.8 and kernel-wedge should be fixed to create udebs containing those drivers, allowing the final D-I release to install on currently discriminated hardware. Kind regards Frederik Schueler [1] http://bugs.debian.org/239952 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/03/msg00151.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/03/msg00165.html -- ENOSIG
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