Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-20 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:50:58AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The device was listed in d-i because people were using it. This thread is > here because they can no longer do so. It's rather rude of you to declare > that it's ok for the kernel team to "fix" usability issues in the installer

Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-20 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:32:44PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > It would be great if also eth1394 would reappear in the new stack, > especially since the original developer is an @debian.org person. > you seem to have a strange confidence in someone, whose stack went so badly down the roa

Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:01:40PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > What discussion? I googled for it and after skimming through about 20 pages > > I still have not found it. What I _did_ find is several other reports of > > problems with the new stack, two of which complain about missing Eth

Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-20 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:01:40PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > eth1394 is missing that is by far the less used firewire driver. But for some people the driver used early in the installation (where a kernel rebuild is not very convenient). > the switch to the juju stack allowed to clo

Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-20 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 15 November 2007, you wrote: > > the new stack is very promising, > > we will reconsider later if no eth1394 shows up, > > for now that's just a minor regression. > > No, that is not a "minor" regression. Half the functionality of the old > dri

Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:21:36PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Hmm. One more try. Let's check the mailing list for June. Ah, a hit! > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/06/msg00079.html > > No discussion though (at least, I don't usually call a single message a > discussion). Not all

Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Moving thread to cloned BR.) > > On Thursday 15 November 2007, you wrote: >> the new stack is very promising, >> we will reconsider later if no eth1394 shows up, >> for now that's just a minor regression. > > No, that is not a "minor" regression. Half the f

Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

2007-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
(Moving thread to cloned BR.) On Thursday 15 November 2007, you wrote: > the new stack is very promising, > we will reconsider later if no eth1394 shows up, > for now that's just a minor regression. No, that is not a "minor" regression. Half the functionality of the old drivers is missing! > se