I'm currently having issues with a Broadcom Netxtreme II 5708 card when used with Xen on Debian Etch. Basically, using kernel 2.6.18 it works, but as soon as either a bridge or a routed network under Xen is started, it stops receiven packages. The servers (cause they are many) must remain using Debian Etch and using Xen, so Etch-and-half is of no use.
This is a known issue with the card, and they have been solved in the latest drivers [1] provided by Broadcom, which I've already built and tested using linux-headers, and confirmed proper behaviour. The thing is I want to keep using the Debian provided linux-2.6.18 packages, to be able to keep up to date with security fixes, but I need to use these drivers. I have attempted to package the driver as a kernel module, and I'm pretty much done there, but I would like to know the proper way to indicate the fact that this module _overwrites_ modules provided by the kernel (bnx2) Is there a document or package I could follow as an example? [1] http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.php -- Ernesto Hernández-Novich - Linux 2.6.18 i686 - Unix: Live free or die! Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course. If you can't aptitude it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist. GPG Key Fingerprint = 438C 49A2 A8C7 E7D7 1500 C507 96D6 A3D6 2F4C 85E3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
