Hello, On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > (It's an egregious case, because the vast majority of tg3 users don't need > firmware at all. Including the firmware in main in order to support > network installs by the tiny number of users who do need it -- I have heard > of three such users ever -- can't be considered sufficiently important to > break the 100% free promise for, can it? Furthermore, this is a case > where the kernel team has *regressed* from a previous release.) on my old workplace, I came across a dozen of DELL poweredge which ALL needed the firmware to work, guess my face when I wanted to install sarge on those. But yes, most tg3 nics do not need the firmware. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG
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