Re: kernel-image 2.6.5 and tg3 Network card Poweredge 1750

2004-04-29 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jean-Marc Hoeltzli writes: > The point is that if I use the debian distribution of kernel-source, > or if I apply debian-patch the the official kernel 2.6.5 > distribution there is no tg3 driver anymore and if I only use the > official kernel source distribution, the kernel will not load it's

Re: kernel-image 2.6.5 and tg3 Network card Poweredge 1750

2004-04-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jean-Marc Hoeltzli: > the kernel will not load it's initrd properly due to the lach of the > cramfs initrd patch. > "its". ;-) > any idea or help to get a runnig 2.6.5 kernel-image debian package on > those machine would be apreciated. > Use romfs and genromfs, and/or lobby for inclusion

kernel-image 2.6.5 and tg3 Network card Poweredge 1750

2004-04-28 Thread Jean-Marc Hoeltzli
hi I experienced some crashes under kernel-image-2.6.3 on a Poweredge 1750 so i wanted to upgrade the kernel to it's latest version. So i did apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686-smp Unfortunately the presence of binary firmware in the tg3 driver caused the debian team to remove this driver f