I'm looking for someone who can produce working ixp ethernet modules
built against Debian's linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 (2.6.16-17) package.

Beta3 of debian-installer will be released today and as with the last
beta I wanted to prepare unofficial images which include Intel's
Ethernet modules.  Marcus Better has done some great work in the last
few weeks creating packages from which modules can easily be built.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to work - at least I get a long oops
when I insert the module [1].

I spent all of yesterday trying to build my own modules but I get the
same result.  I tried upstream's 2.6.17.8, Debian's 2.6.16 and 2.6.17,
the current and previous access library/Ethernet driver from Intel and
a number of other things.  I don't know what else I could try, but
maybe someone else can investigate.  Apparently it works for the
SlugOS folks so that's probably a good starting point...

If someone can produce modules which work (and which ideally have the
microcode embedded in the ixp400 module rather than as a standalone
file) I'll be glad to prepare updated debian-installer images which
include the driver.  Until then, I'm afraid that installations using
the built-in Ethernet port are not supported - however, it works if
you use an USB Ethernet adapter.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.nslu2.devel/1007
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/