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Am Sonntag, 17. Mai 2020, 10:24:00 CEST schrieb William Kenworthy: |
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> Easiest would be to put it in /etc/conf.d/modules and rebuild the |
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> initrd. Genkernel picks it up from there. You could also ask genkernel |
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> to add all built modules to the initrd via its config file. |
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Whats the format of that file? |
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Alex |
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> BillK |
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> On 17/5/20 4:07 pm, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: |
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> > Hi there |
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> > I just upgraded an older notebook with r8169 network chip to new kernel |
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> > 5.4 |
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> > (sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.28) with genkernel. |
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> > After booting the new kernel the network adapter was not initialized, no |
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> > network interface eth0. |
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> > Dmesg says |
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> > [ 6.390973] r8169 0000:08:00.0: realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it needs |
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> > to be added to initramfs? |
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> > [ 6.392864] r8169: probe of 0000:08:00.0 failed with error -2 |
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> > After searching with google I found a thread in the kernel mailing list |
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> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204343 |
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> > The cause is a soft depencency to module realtek.ko, which needs to be |
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> > loaded first. |
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> > Doing this manually, i.e. rmmod r8169 && modprobe realtek && modprobe |
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> > r8169 |
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> > works fine; network interface eth0 gets configured and is operating. |
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> > Since the kernel loads the network module before systemd is running, it |
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> > has to be configured in initrd somehow. |
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> > So, the final question is, how to get that into initrd with genkernel? |
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> > I need to add something like this |
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> > cat /etc/modprobe.d/realtek |
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> > Softdep r8169 pre: realtek |
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> > How do I get this into initrd with genkernel-next? |
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> > Thanks in advance |
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> > Alex |
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> > |
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> > PS |
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> > Profile: |
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> > default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd |
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> > |
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> > Relevant packages: |
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> > sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration-7 |
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> > sys-apps/kmod-26-r5 |
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> > sys-apps/systemd-244.3 |
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> > sys-kernel/genkernel-next-69 |
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> > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.28 |
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> > |
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> > Lspci |
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> > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. |
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> > RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) |
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Dipl. Ing. Alexander Puchmayr |
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