Ben, You stated the you were closing this bug as a hardware problem. I can only infer that you mean the 3c509b's inability to autonegotiate is a hardware problem. To that point you and I are in complete agreement as I stated in my bug submittal with the referenced to the kernel documentation files. My point in submitting the bug report was to let you know that the software works as advertised when initialized by modprobe when the system is up but it does not boot correctly. "Does not boot correctly" is not a hardware problem, it's a software problem. This is an old network card and not worth any time to make it work out of the box. The workaround I've listed is fine. I just wanted you to have an idea that the network driver is not properly initialized at boot up time to allow it to provide all functionality, just in case this would help you find a more broadly applicable issue with network card initialization in the future.
Thank you for reviewing my submittal. Regards, Bob Lee -----Original Message----- From: Debian BTS [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Debian Bug Tracking System Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 1:39 PM To: root Subject: Bug#558292 closed by Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> (Re: Bug#558292: kernel: ethernet interface 3c509b will only initialize at boot with 10BaseT/Half duplex.) This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the linux-2.6 package: #558292: kernel: ethernet interface 3c509b will only initialize at boot with 10BaseT/Half duplex. It has been closed by Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>. Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> by replying to this email. -- 558292: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558292 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [email protected] with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
