Bug#679545: IA64 (Itanium) Wheezy, doesn't detect DVD drive and NIC, patch proposal

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

found 679545 linux/3.2.23-1
# hardware support
severity 679545 important
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Stephan Schreiber wrote:

> I just installed the unmodified Wheezy kernel
> (linux-image-3.2.0-3-mckinley_3.2.23.1_ia64.deb).
>
> The dmesg output is attached.

Thanks for the quick reply.  I assume the DVD drive is not usable with
this kernel.

If you have dmesg output from the custom kernel that uses the ide/piix
driver, that will be useful as well for comparison.

Thanks for your patience,
Jonathan