Re: tg3 driver fails
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:28:34PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> DSM> No user wants to hear a story, they want their systems to work, and
> DSM> developers do too. I don't want to hear a story either, because all I
> DSM> see are user's systems not working and nothing that can be done about
> DSM> it at this time.
>
> <rant>
> There are also other kinds of people who just choose the vendors who
> work with opensource community and whose products do not need nonfree
> firmware. Personally, I have stayed away from tg3 (among other things)
> because the vendor and/or driver authors can't make it work hassle-free
> for me. It _seems_ to go against kernel and Debian policies and so
> causes troubles. As a user, I see nothing wrong with (for instance)
> standard firmware loading interface support so nonfree firmware can be
> supported better by distributions.
> </rant>
Problem with that is most newer Suns come with tg3 as the only ethernet
card, so not being able to use tg3 precludes a huge class of from-factory
machines.
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