broadcom BCM5700 2.6 kernel (tg3 module)

2004-05-30 Thread Michael Webber
Hi all, I have been working 12/7 for 2 weeks and 5 days on this problem with the help of #debian irc chat. My problem is I can't get my server ( HP DL140) with Broadcom BCM1504 nics to work with a 2.6 kernel of any kind. It is a dual XEON 2.4 with 2 gig of ddr ecc ram (if that matters). I h

initrd-tools_0.1.70_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-05-30 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: initrd-tools_0.1.70.dsc to pool/main/i/initrd-tools/initrd-tools_0.1.70.dsc initrd-tools_0.1.70.tar.gz to pool/main/i/initrd-tools/initrd-tools_0.1.70.tar.gz initrd-tools_0.1.70_all.deb to pool/main/i/initrd-tools/initrd-tools_0.1.70_all.deb Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists

Fixed in NMU of initrd-tools 0.1.70

2004-05-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
tag 249641 + fixed quit This message was generated automatically in response to a non-maintainer upload. The .changes file follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 13:28:50 -0300 Source: initrd-tools Binary: initrd-tools Architecture: source all

Processing of initrd-tools_0.1.70_i386.changes

2004-05-30 Thread Archive Administrator
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Re: Debian kernel maintainter takeover

2004-05-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Adam Majer wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: Adam Majer wrote: As to the non-free binary blobs, these are to be moved to non-free. There should be an automatic 'non-free removal patches' (not part of the actual debian source). To follow the X Strike Force model (which seems to work) I suggest

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:37:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > No, theres lots of code in kernelspace that assumes a partitioned disk >> > has a block of minors. Use a volume manager instead

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:37:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, theres lots of code in kernelspace that assumes a partitioned disk > > has a block of minors. Use a volume manager instead of traditional > > partitions if you need more th

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> As for 3 this is a general problem of scsi disks. Wouldn't it be >> possible for the code that scans partitions to allocate device nodes >> dynamically for partitions >15 so tha

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As for 3 this is a general problem of scsi disks. Wouldn't it be > possible for the code that scans partitions to allocate device nodes > dynamically for partitions >15 so that users with devfs or udev active > would get additi

Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, recently we (debian-amd64) have gotten some problem reports for SATA. Depending on the kernel version, how it is configured and how the initrd is build an SATA disk shows up as /dev/hde or /dev/sda. This has three consequences: 1. going back and forth between an old and new kernel means chan