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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:44:44
Message-Id: CAN0CFw2=+KbD45zReOW3BW6BCjAJt=9sVV2n_-84ec=LMOQdPw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch by Michael Mol
1 >> # ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:04:00.0
2 >> broken_parity_status      device         irq            msi_bus  reset
3 >>     resource2_wc  subsystem_device  vpd
4 >> class                     dma_mask_bits  local_cpulist  net
5 >> resource   resource4     subsystem_vendor
6 >> config                    driver         local_cpus     remove
7 >> resource0  resource4_wc  uevent
8 >> consistent_dma_mask_bits  enable         modalias       rescan
9 >> resource2  subsystem     vendor
10 >>
11 >> So I guess I'm missing net:eth0 in that last one?
12 >
13 > Looks that way.
14 >
15 >>
16 >> It's a nearly brand new motherboard:
17 >>
18 >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128490
19 >>
20 >> Maybe the r8169 driver hasn't caught up?
21 >
22 > I dunno; you said it worked in 2.6.36, but not in 2.6.38 and 2.6.39,
23 > so that sounds like a regression. I don't know where you'd go from
24 > here. Possibly contact the group that maintains the driver.
25
26 Well, I'm getting different behavior from the device on my laptop and
27 on my desktop so I guess the devices are a bit different even though
28 they look the same with lspci. On my laptop, everything is good under
29 2.6.36 without linux-firmware, on 2.6.39 everything is good as long as
30 I install linux-firmware. On my desktop with linux-firmware, I get
31 eth0 under ifconfig -a and iwconfig, but not ifconfig. On my laptop,
32 it appears under all three.
33
34 > If you do that, then they'd probably find it helpful if you checked to
35 > see if 2.6.37 worked; that'd let them narow things down a bit. Also,
36 > they'd likely find the relevant lines from "lspci -vv" useful.
37
38 OK, thanks.
39
40 - Grant