On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:38:55AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > And in this case it's not even clear who's at fault. > > AFAIK the kernel will normally survive not being able to load firmware: > > the module will be loaded, but the device not enabled. > > Not in this case, apparently! > > I suppose if these tg3 cards are compatible with other architectures, moving > one or both to an i386 would provide an interesting data point... are > PCI cards usually expected to be portable between architectures?
Yeah. Only video cards are usually a bit problematic as they need their bios to be run by the cpu, most other cards should just work. Sjoerd -- Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
