[Debian-uk] Ex-Debian AlphaServers looking for a new home

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 10:45 +0100, Tim Cutts wrote:
[...]
> The gigabit ethernet card is an Alteon, and we haven't been using it
> with Linux since licence issues caused that driver to be dropped from
> the Debian kernel a couple of years back.  If you build a kernel.org
> kernel, you can get it to work though.
[...]

The Alteon (acenic) driver was reenabled some time back, using external
firmware.  The firmware still isn't packaged due to the weird licence,
though there is some hope of fixing that (#643952).  But you can still
install that unpackaged.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
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