On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:13:28PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote:
I have Dell GX280 and because of removing tg3.c cannot use
network. Is there any other solution like compiling
modules (i.e. nvidia-source) or somebody just removed
drivers because of his beleives?
yeaah please either read other bug reports concerned by tg3
or read d-k there you find hints where do get those non-free bits.
A slightly longer description of the problem
as seen on http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/05/msg00077.html
This has been brought up and answered several times a week for
the past few months. Its an unfortunate system but here is the
situation:
1. There are some bits of code from upstream that can't be included
in main, and thus kernel-image packages, because of licencing
concerns. In a nutshell they aren't considered DFSG free.
2. These have been moved into the nonfree package mentioned earlier in
the thread. This will be uploaded to debian. However, there
are some concernes about the distibutability of some of
the drivers in the package, and until that is all cleaned up
it can't be uploaded.
http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11/
3. In the mean time anyone who needs those drivers has to tediously
search the internet and find a message like this one linking to
the URL, or use the Kernel.Org kernel. Clearly this sux and
I sympathise with complaints about it, even though I am
a member of the team that has created this mess.
--
Horms
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