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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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