Bug#311525: kernel-source-2.6.11: Cannot use kernel on Dell GX280 because tg3 removed

[Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@kolumbus.fi>]

Hi,

Thanks for help with the link, also some comments below.

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:03:10PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:13:28PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Jun 2005, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote:
> > 
> > > I have Dell GX280 and because of removing tg3.c cannot use
> > > network. Is there any other solution like compiling
> > > modules (i.e. nvidia-source) or somebody just removed
> > > drivers because of his  beleives?
> > 
> > yeaah please either read other bug reports concerned by tg3
> > or read d-k there you find hints where do get those non-free bits.
> 
> A slightly longer description of the problem 
> as seen on http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/05/msg00077.html
> 
> This has been brought up and answered several times a week for
> the past few months. Its an unfortunate system but here is the
> situation:
> 
> 1. There are some bits of code from upstream that can't be included
>    in main, and thus kernel-image packages, because of licencing
>    concerns. In a nutshell they aren't considered DFSG free.
> 
> 2. These have been moved into the nonfree package mentioned earlier in
>    the thread. This will be uploaded to debian. However, there
>    are some concernes about the distibutability of some of
>    the drivers in the package, and until that is all cleaned up
>    it can't be uploaded.
> 
>    http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11/
> 

Looks similar to nvidia-kernel-source

niko@quimpy:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-source 
nvidia-kernel-source:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.0.7174-3
  Version Table:
     1.0.7174-3 0
        500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
        500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages


I hope this non-free drivers will get to debian soon.


> 3. In the mean time anyone who needs those drivers has to tediously
>    search the internet and find a message like this one linking to
>    the URL, or use the Kernel.Org kernel. Clearly this sux and 
>    I sympathise with complaints about it, even though I am 
>    a member of the team that has created this mess.
> 
> -- 
> Horms

Regards,
Andrei Emeltchenko