Hi, Thanks for help with the link, also some comments below.
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:03:10PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:13:28PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2005, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote: > > > > > I have Dell GX280 and because of removing tg3.c cannot use > > > network. Is there any other solution like compiling > > > modules (i.e. nvidia-source) or somebody just removed > > > drivers because of his beleives? > > > > yeaah please either read other bug reports concerned by tg3 > > or read d-k there you find hints where do get those non-free bits. > > A slightly longer description of the problem > as seen on http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/05/msg00077.html > > This has been brought up and answered several times a week for > the past few months. Its an unfortunate system but here is the > situation: > > 1. There are some bits of code from upstream that can't be included > in main, and thus kernel-image packages, because of licencing > concerns. In a nutshell they aren't considered DFSG free. > > 2. These have been moved into the nonfree package mentioned earlier in > the thread. This will be uploaded to debian. However, there > are some concernes about the distibutability of some of > the drivers in the package, and until that is all cleaned up > it can't be uploaded. > > http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11/ > Looks similar to nvidia-kernel-source [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-source: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.0.7174-3 Version Table: 1.0.7174-3 0 500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/non-free Packages 500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages I hope this non-free drivers will get to debian soon. > 3. In the mean time anyone who needs those drivers has to tediously > search the internet and find a message like this one linking to > the URL, or use the Kernel.Org kernel. Clearly this sux and > I sympathise with complaints about it, even though I am > a member of the team that has created this mess. > > -- > Horms Regards, Andrei Emeltchenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
