El 2020-05-08 a las 07:37 +0200, Heiner Kallweit escribió: > On 07.05.2020 16:14, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 7 May 2020 12:20:54 +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > >> RTL8401 (XID 240) was never supported by r8169. > >> Having said that nothing was dropped from the driver. > >> And most likely you don't have to compile r8101 yourself, > >> most distro's have a pre-compiled package. > > > > How that can be? This computer perfectly detected the ethernet card > > years ago (2013), using kernel 3.9.0-rc2 (Debian nomenclature) and r8169 > > driver: > > > > (dmesg excerpt) > > > > [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.9.0-rc2 (root@stt300) (gcc version 4.7.2 > > (Debian 4.7.2-5) ) #1 SMP Sun Mar 17 22:49:53 CET 2013 > > > > [ 0.000000] DMI: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Mini CQ10-500 /148A, BIOS F.15 > > 01/14/2011 > > > > [ 6.558651] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > > [ 6.573693] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded > > [ 6.574014] r8169 0000:01:00.0 (unregistered net_device): unknown MAC, > > using family default > > This is the key. There has never been native support for the RTL8401. In > earlier times (until > end of 2018) we had a fallback to a default chip version for unknown chip > versions. > This was removed because each chip version requires it's own specific > initialization and quirks.
So we had «some kind of support» in kernel that now is gone ;-) > It's quite fortunate that your RTL8401 works properly if treated as RTL8101e. > What we can do is adding this as explicit assignment. Yes... please! :-) This NIC chipset is installed in very common netbooks (I'm at least aware of 2 more cases like mine). Ethernet cards are a must for business environments. Should you need additonal hardware information, kindly ask. Greetings, -- Camaleón
