Bug#779384: Bug is serious.
Hi there,
When I upgraded my laptop from Wheezy to Jessie the JME driver failed.
When I was running Wheezy the Debian-supplied version did not work at
all, leaving me with no Ethernet connection. So I would routinely
replace the JME driver supplied by Debian with one from JMicron which
I compiled myself.
A week or so ago, when I upgraded to Jessie, the Debian-supplied driver
again failed, but the driver which I have been using with Wheezy does not
compile under Jessie's updated build system. It would be much easier to
switch to a different distribution than to find out why it won't compile
and fix it, so I trawled the 'net with the search engines and found this
Ubuntu list post which describes a workaround:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/880316
This workaround is to reduce the speed at which the interface operates
from 1Gbit/s to 100Mbit/s. Obviously to find this post I had to use a
different a computer, since mine wasn't able to connect to the network.
'Upgrading' my laptop to Jessie felt like a definite downgrade as it
prevented me from using my computer. So I'd call this bug SERIOUS.
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73,
Ged.
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