Bug#311357: Upgrade of 386 version of the 2.6.8 kernel breaks via-rhine

["Alan W. Irwin" <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>]

This is a confirmation of the bad problem with the via-rhine module
for the latest version of the 386 version of the 2.6.8 kernel.

I "upgraded" today from kernel-image-2.6.8.2-386 version 2.6.8-13 to
2.6.8-16, and my network card (D-link 10/100 DFE-530TX) that is controlled
by the via-rhine module immediately quit working.  This card/via-rhine
module pair has been working for me without problems for 5 years under
Debian until now.

Since this is such a heavily used networking module, I consider it is
critical to fix this recently introduced problem before the release.

Alan W. Irwin
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Alan W. Irwin
email: irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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