3c59x in 2.4.27 broken in Testing upgrades, I guess... (Was Re: [bad] broken in upgrades: fvwm & tetex-bin)

[Bill Kendrick]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:45:00AM -0800, Michael Paoli wrote:
> broken in upgrades: fvwm & tetex-bin

I just did an apt-get upgrade on my wife's laptop (Thinkpad T20
running Debian Testing and its 2.4.27 kernel).

Suddenly, ethernet was broken.  I poked my head in #debian for a bit,
did a ton of Google searching (I know very little about kernel
modules, interrupts, ACPI or much of anything that seemed important).

I decided to make her the guinnea pig and install 2.6 (2.6.8 from Testing,
specifcially).

All seems well, so far.  Network works... *check!*  Sound works... *check!*

_Whew!_

Last time I did a 'big' upgrade, Firefox hit 1.0 and lost a bunch of
her settings.  Eep! :)

-bill!
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