On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:39 +0100, Rainer Koenig wrote: > Hi, > > quick introduction of myself: The guy that is repsonsible to bring Linux > on the desktop PCs at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. > > Now my question: I tried to install the latest Lenny netinstall snapshot > on our current destkop models today, but unfortunately this snapshot is > missing the support for the Intel Boazman LAN in e1000e. Boazman is > device ID 8086:10df. > > Yes, I understand the issues of freezes and that Lenny will come with a > 2.6.26 kernel that doesn't support this device. So my concern is about > how I can support our customers that still want to use Debian on actual > PC hardware. Does this device require new code in the driver, or is it sufficient to add the new id to its device id table? In the latter case I expect that it could be added in a stable update. > So a few questions, I hope that this mailing list is the correct one to > ask this: > > 1. Is there a sort of "driver backport" group that takes care of such > issues? Or is the concept behind debian to move forward to newer kernels > to obtain hardware support? We don't backport drivers into the linux-2.6 package. Newer kernel versions are likely to be made available in the lenny-backports suite of www.backports.org, though this is not yet an official service. > 2. Is there a mechanism to replace drivers during installation. > Imagining I would get a working e1000e module somehow I still would need > to make it usable on the installation process, at the moment all I can > think of is adding it by hand to the proper modules/../updates directory > and inserting it by hand. Looks not like an easy to use setup. :-) > Ok, maybe this is more for the debian-boot mailing list, is it? [...] Yes, this is for debian-boot. Ben.
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