Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11 Severity: important
The xircom_tulip_cb has been completely configured out of the debian 2.6.18 kernel (to the point it's not even commented out in the /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 file), presumably as it is sometimes thought it has been deprecated in favour of the newer xircom_cb (I *think* xircom_tulip_cb is still in upstream -- at least it was there in the 2.6.18 source I downloaded some time ago). Unfortunately, xircom_cb doesn't work in a lot of places where xircom_tulip_cb does. In my Inspiron 4000 for instance, the newer driver simply drops packets all over the place, and errors out others. NFS becomes unusable. I have found in the past that this card has to be put over to half duplex mode to make it more reliable (in its current state, I get better throughput if I connect the machine to a 10MB HD hub, rather than my 10/100 FD switch!). The xircom_tulip_cb driver comes with MII abilities and and hence be configured to talk HD. The newer driver can't be. I modprobe mii first before modprobing xircom_cb, and still nothing. There's nothing in the source for the newer driver, whereas there was in the older one (dunno whether drivers are meant to do their own mii) I'm not the only person with this problem: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2005-April/001814.html http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.2/1049.html (damn, I remember reading a thread about this in the past, but can't find it now) Since the new module is picked by default because of udev/whatever, I don't think there is any need to explicitly not compile the older module as a module, particularly since not doing so breaks some peoples setups. Please reconsider. Ta. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85f tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 recommends: ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-4-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-4-686: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
