Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
a) drop 8139cp (in preference to 8139too), eepro100 (in preference to
e100), dmfe (in preference to tulip), xircom_tulip_cb (in preference to
xircom_cb, and it doesn't load anyway because of missing symbols). If
you disagree because this breaks your network access, please tell.
b) apply Debian patch (attached) that causes hotplug to try loading all
matching PCI drivers instead of stopping at the first one (even if it is
blacklisted). Amend the blacklist. Requires testing by owners of
RTL-8139C+ cards for which both drivers work.
What is more correct here?
Hrm. That's a tough choice. It seems that whenever I decide to drop
support for a certain device, someone shows up and says, 'why isn't
there support for my device?'. So, I suppose we should at least test out
option 'b' first before we just drop those modules (with the possible
exception of the xircom_tulip_cb module, which as you pointed out,
doesn't load.) Anyone out there have the RTL-8139C+ card Alexander
mentioned and would be willing to help us test?
(CC'ing lfs-dev to improve our chances of having someone with that card
read this request for help.)
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JH
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