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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi Folks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stupid newbie question:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm trying to get Grant Likelys latest TEMAC driver from his git-tree.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Follwing the directions on the secretlab.ca website I start by cloning </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Linus' tree. Since I'm behind a firewall which blocks the git port I use:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> git clone </FONT><A HREF="http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">At first everything is fine and git happily seems to download the tree.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After a while however, git exits with the following error message:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> error: Couldn't get </FONT><A HREF="http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/refs/tags/v2.6.11"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/refs/tags/v2.6.11</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> for tags/v2.6.11</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> The requested URL returned error: 404</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> error: Could not interpret tags/v2.6.11 as something to pull</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> rm: cannot remove directory `/cygdrive/c/home/git/linux-2.6/.git/clone-tmp': Directory not empty</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any hint what I did wrong? </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Many thanks in advance,</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Gerald</FONT>
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