Juan, No, I believe not. firmware-linux - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel (meta-package) firmware-linux-free - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel firmware-linux-nonfree - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
They are drivers for the kernel, not Network Interface Card. I remember getting my NIC going full Gigabit speed by using my Ethernet controller: Intel 82579 Gigabit and am using the e1000e driver. -------------------------------- This does not seem related to the firmware necessary in some hardware cases. Hope this helps. Mel On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 16:08 -0700, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > > Mel, > I used both linux-firmware & linux-firmware-nonfree from the trusty > repository...wouldn't that be enough? > =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* > > =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= > > On 2014-03-03 3:31 PM, "Juan Alberto Cirez" <jaci...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I am having a bit of the problem (actually there were two. > One, seems to be solved)... > > I had a ASUS E35M1-M PRO mobo-based server w/8GB RAM and two > NIC cards (the onboard NIC and a D-LINK DGE-530T REV C1, later > replaced by an INTEL PRO/1000 GT DESKTOP). > > When I first built this server I opted for a basic Ubuntu > 12.04 LTS server install and all was well, except that despite > my best efforts I could not get the DGE card up to Gigabit > speed (and on occasions, during a reboot, the card would stop > working altogether) ; and worse, over the course of hours, the > memory usage crept to over 90% of installed capacity. > > I desired to upgrade the kernel several times up to the > 3.13.rc8 version to no avail. > > > I tried replacing the DGE NIC with the INTEL PRO/1000 GT and > while that fixed the problem I had with the NIC to starting > during the reboot, the memory leakage and NON-Gigabit speed > remained. > > > I lastly upgraded to Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch); > but encountered another problem: A definitive memory leak > error every time I logged into the system. > > > After reading through several online post, I came to the > conclusion (based on others experience) that the problem may > be due to a faulty samba installation (or more specifically > python-samba). > > At this point I figured I had nothing to lose and decided to > remove python from the system and reinstall. After issuing > the following commands: > # apt-get --purge autoremove python-* > # apt-get autoremove attr libaio1 libapparmor-perl > libhdb9-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal libldb1 libmpdec2 libntdb1 > libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libtevent0 > policykit-1 run-one > # apt-get install python > # apt-get install samba > > and rebooting the system, this is the current memory > consumption: > KiB Mem: 7769996 total, 504060 used, 7265936 free, > 17268 buffers > > > Although the issue with the NIC remains, at least now my > server is back to performing within acceptable parameters. > > > Now, any ideas how I can solve the issue with the NIC? > > > Thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
