Re: Drivers *dropped* between releases? (sis5513.c)

[Lionel Bouton]

Roland Mas wrote the following on 04/03/2004 10:19 AM :

> [...]
>  More relevant info (maybe): I got an old version of the Debian
> installer, which uses an older kernel, and the process goes on
> normally (well, it halts later because the built-in NIC has a stupid
> MAC address, but that's another problem).
>
>  

If you can find the time, please check that this old installer doesn't 
use the sis5513 driver or DMA transfers. If it does both, I'd be really 
interested by the exact kernel version used. If it doesn't, you'd 
probably found yourself a workaround by disabling dma at boot time.

Best regards,

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