Comment 1 for bug 12840

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:48:08 -0800
From: Dan <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: base: de4x5.ko generates endless loop of errors with phobos p430tx

Package: base
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Debian autodetects my 4 port Phobos P430TX and attempts to use the de4x5.ko
driver. When the boot process gets to initializeing the card it outputs an
endless loop of this message, and won't finish booting:
bad media code [17] detected in SROM

I had to remove the card to get it the machine to boot.
I corrected the problem by renaming de4x5.ko to de4x5.off. Then on next boot
it defaulted to useing tulip.ko and so far everything appears to work ok.

I tried the card in 2 different debian machines, same problem. I tried both
the current 2.6 and 2.4 kernel, same problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)