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Re: sun blade 1500 install



On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:10:37 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> There is a fully open-source tg3 driver that supports the
> sunblade1500 onboard ethernet.  The debian images just
> don't have it added to the boot image.
> 
> I understand all of the issues with included firmware, but
> that's been edited out of the debian kernel trees and it's
> a no-brainer to add this driver to the sparc install images.

Eh, you don't understand. Only the included firmware part that's required
to support some features of one or two Broadcom cards has been stripped
out. the driver works fine otherwise!

Re: not including it with 2.4 boot images that's my fault. Fixed... :(

-- 
Joshua Kwan




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