On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:49:02 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Wagener <st...@gmx.net> > wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:55 -0600 > > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener <st...@gmx.net> > >> wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… > >> > > >> > My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works > >> > with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the > >> > kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I > >> > guess because of som patents) 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?" So I > >> > did, only to find out that Linus and his friends changed the way > >> > drivers are initialized… (__devinit got unsupported for example) > >> > > >> > Of course, the guys who wrote that r8169 have not changed their > >> > code yet. > >> > > >> > tl;dr: > >> > My network is broken since 3.8.0. > >> > > >> > 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. For the long run im thinking of buying a PCI(e) > >> > card with Kernel support. Or maybe, if I find some time I will > >> > fix the driver myself. > >> > > >> > My question now is: > >> > Who should I talk to so something like this does not happen > >> > again? A certain gentoo dev, who could issue warnings on > >> > emerging kernels, something like excerpts from the changelog? > >> > Myself, because I missed what I described above? The devs of the > >> > r8169? Linus & co for breaking things? > >> > Myself bcause I forgot something else? > >> > Realtek? > >> > Or someone completely different? > >> > >> Mmmh. What sources do you use? In vanilla-sources-3.8.2, there is a > >> r8169 driver: > >> > >> ./drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c > >> > >> config R8169 > >> tristate "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support" > >> > >> Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit > >> Ethernet adapter. > >> > >> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the > >> module will be called r8169. This is recommended. > >> > >> What is more, I'm using that driver. It works without a problem. Do > >> you use a different driver with the same name? > >> > >> Regards. > > > > > > oh great, so I actually mixed it up… > > the 8169 is in the Kernel yes, but what i need is the 8168 > > The in-kernel drive (supposedly) supports 8168: > > r8169.c: RealTek 8169/8168/8101 ethernet driver. > > Have you tried it recently? When drivers are in-kernel, they usually > are improved greatly between versions, perhaps it works now with your > card if it didn't before. > > Otherwise, I don't know about your problem. > > Regards. Thanks for encouraging me, the in-kernel driver actually works. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
