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On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:53:42 +0100 |
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Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > |
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> > I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… |
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> > |
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> > My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works |
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> > with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the |
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> > kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess |
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> > because of som patents) That worked for quite some time, until i |
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> > thought "hey, you got an hour of time, your workstation is still on |
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> > 3.7.4, why don't you just upgrade it to 3.8.2?" So I did, only to |
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> > find out that Linus and his friends changed the way drivers are |
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> > initialized… (__devinit got unsupported for example) |
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> > |
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> > Of course, the guys who wrote that r8169 have not changed their |
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> > code yet. |
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> > |
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> > tl;dr: |
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> > My network is broken since 3.8.0. |
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> > |
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> > So for an immediate fix I am emerging 3.7.10 (since emerge |
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> > --depclean deleted the Kernel source when it found the source fo |
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> > 3.7.8 which got removed as soon as 3.8.2 was emerged…) to get it |
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> > working again. For the long run im thinking of buying a PCI(e) card |
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> > with Kernel support. Or maybe, if I find some time I will fix the |
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> > driver myself. |
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> > |
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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, |
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> > something like excerpts from the changelog? Myself, because I |
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> > missed what I described above? 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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> > |
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> so, you are using a superfluous external driver. Despite the fact that |
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> external drivers are prone to breaking you insist on using the latest |
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> kernel, instead using the latest kernel of one of the stable kernel |
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> series like 3.4. To add insult to injury you remove kernels after |
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> installing instead of after testing. |
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well… I guess that sums it up… :( |
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