Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Severity: wishlist This is a feature request to have a more recent sk98lin driver in the stock debian kernel. I am the owner of a Toshiba Tecra S2, which contains a
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) When I installed debian I actually had to dig up a PCMCIA card in order to netinstall debian (see http://www.de-brauwer.be/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=LinuxTecraS2 for my notes on this system). The main issue is that the onboard ethernet card is not support out of the box because the sk98lin driver embedded in vanilla is _OLD_. I just gave linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 a try, and it also sustained this error. So I'm adding this as a wishlist item because for now I have to compile my kernels myself simply because of this module version. A quick look at google: http://www.google.be/search?q=debian+sk98lin shows I'm not the only person with issues: Following are references to laptops/persons with issues with this driver (only debian users, so the brave few that succeeded, can you imagine how many brave souls did not succeed at this task ? I regularly get e-mails from people that read the page on my wiki and encounterd problems with the installation): http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~rheise/LW60/ : LG's LW60-DBJA Express Notebook http://www.hermann-uwe.de/hardware/debian-gnu-linux-on-a-toshiba-satellite-a80-117: Toshiba Satellite A80-117 http://tuxmobil.de/toshiba_tecra_a4_linux.html : Toshiba TECRA A4 http://www.to.infn.it/~ipesando/Installation.html http://irbs.sourceforge.net/toshiba-a80-laptop-debian-howto-en.html: Toshiba A80 http://www.is.tu-braunschweig.de/~buethe/p4p800_raid.html : Asus P4P800 http://www.land-of-kain.de/linux/toshiba_a80-117.html -> Mind the sentence "The result: After 10 evenings of testing, I am done with it. I will return the Notebook to my local dealer (Mediamarkt)." and " Update: I had an email conversation in 2005-07 with a guy named Thomas Meyer, who bought a successor of the notebook, the Toshiba Satellite A80-154, and succeeded installing a Gentoo on it. It turns out that if you compile your own kernel with updated netcard and wlan drivers, Linux works at least on his hardware. He also wrote an install article." And after those links I got tired of googling...is there a specific reason why this driver isn't embedded in debian (yet), am I missing something ? Or are you trying to give people installing debian a challenge ;-). Other distributions e.g. SuSe (but that is no reference) support the driver out of the box... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
