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On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:55 -0600 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener <stelf@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… |
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> > My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. |
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> > Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess because of som patents) |
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> > That worked for quite some time, until i thought "hey, you got an hour of time, your workstation is still on 3.7.4, why don't you just upgrade it to 3.8.2?" |
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> > So I did, only to find out that Linus and his friends changed the way drivers are initialized… (__devinit got unsupported for example) |
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> > Of course, the guys who wrote that r8169 have not changed their code yet. |
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> > tl;dr: |
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> > My network is broken since 3.8.0. |
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> > So for an immediate fix I am emerging 3.7.10 (since emerge --depclean deleted the Kernel source when it found the source fo 3.7.8 which got removed as soon as 3.8.2 was emerged…) to get it working again. |
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> > For the long run im thinking of buying a PCI(e) card with Kernel support. |
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> > Or maybe, if I find some time I will fix the driver myself. |
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> > My question now is: |
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> > Who should I talk to so something like this does not happen again? |
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> > A certain gentoo dev, who could issue warnings on emerging kernels, something like excerpts from the changelog? |
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> > Myself, because I missed what I described above? |
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> > The devs of the r8169? |
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> > Linus & co for breaking things? |
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> > Myself bcause I forgot something else? |
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> > Realtek? |
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> > Or someone completely different? |
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> Mmmh. What sources do you use? In vanilla-sources-3.8.2, there is a |
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> r8169 driver: |
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> ./drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c |
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> config R8169 |
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> tristate "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support" |
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> Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. |
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> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
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> will be called r8169. This is recommended. |
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> What is more, I'm using that driver. It works without a problem. Do |
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> you use a different driver with the same name? |
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> Regards. |
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oh great, so I actually mixed it up… |
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the 8169 is in the Kernel yes, but what i need is the 8168 |
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