On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 19:45 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:54:35AM -0800, Matt Carlson wrote: > > I think I misspoke earlier. The commit I mentioned above fixes a problem > > introduced in an earlier patch. (commit ID > > d2394e6bb1aa636f3bd142cb6f7845a4332514b5, entitled > > "tg3: Always turn on APE features in mac_mode reg") So the fact that > > 2.6.32-35 works and 2.6.32-36 doesn't means you applied the problematic > > patch that had the bug, but you didn't apply the above fix to correct it. > > I can try a fixed kernel, but I don't understand the way Debian builds > its kernels. I can > > (a) download a Debian kernel source package, apply > d2394e6bb1aa636f3bd142cb6f7845a4332514b5 and go the make; make install > way or > (b) wait for a kernel deb from Ben. > > If (a) is expected to give reasonable results, I can do that.
I'm not going to build a complete new package myself, as you can easily do that with the debian/bin/test-patches script in the source package. But I can provide you with a rebuilt tg3.ko so you can test just that change in the installer like you did previously. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
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