From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#345603: Install report: failed to detect ethernet card
(Marvell Yukon)
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:06:49 +0100
> Installer could not detect my ethernet card, a "Marvell Yukon 88E8053
> PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller" card. There are Linux drivers
> available for this card, found at
> http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=107&pId=10.
The driver you link to here has a non-free licence and thus can never be
included in Debian. If there is a free alternative driver that will work
with this card, than please let us know.
There's this driver from syskonnect that claims to support the Marvell card
also, but I couldn't find a license. I suppose it's too much to hope that it
just happens to be GPL-compatible, but here it is for your review anyway.
I'm not perfectly sure this one will work with the card, either, actually.
http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9elin.htm
If it can't be included in Debian, could it be made available as a separate,
clearly marked nonfree download? I noticed that the installer lets you
select driver modules if it can't find one automatically, and the last
option is 'none of these' which lets you insert a driver floppy. Can the
Marvell driver be packaged as such a floppy and offered for download
separately somehow?
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