On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 01:43 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:10:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 01:48 +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > > > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp > > > Version: 2.6.26-13 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Acenic driver is provided without firmware. When it's being loaded at > > > boot time, it starts complaining that it can't find a firmware to > > > load. Boot progreses for a little while and eventually when setting up > > > networking, the box goes kaboom. Yay. > > > > Can you be more specific? > > > > Meanwhile, I should see about adding the firmware to firmware-nonfree. > > This doesn't seem to have happened yet, did the firmware turn out to > be non-distributable?
The information provided by upstream is: > Driver: acenic -- Alteon AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet card > > File: acenic/tg1.bin > File: acenic/tg2.bin > > Licence: Unknown > > Found in hex form in kernel source, but source allegedly available at > http://alteon.shareable.org/ The essential subdirectories of <http://alteon.shareable.org/> are currently inaccessible, but this is probably a misconfiguration. I'll try emailing the site owner. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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