Re: Request for r8168 stretch-backports
Le mardi 15 mai 2018, 01:09:24 CEST Andreas Beckmann a écrit :
> On 2018-05-14 20:24, Jens Reyer wrote:
> > On 5/14/18 8:15 PM, Jens Reyer wrote:
> >> Hi Andreas, hi all,
> >>
> >> r8168-dkms from stable fails to build the module for the backported
> >> linux 4.16. I now successfully tried r8168-dkms_8.045.08-3_all.deb from
> >> testing, which just works. So I'd like to request a stretch backport of
> >> r8168 - can you do that?
> >
> > Err, correction: the module builds and loads, but ethernet still doesn't
> > work. No idea (yet), why.
>
> So it probably doesn't work in sid neither? I don't need it myself ...
> it was just my dkms playground a few years ago.
>
> No point backporting it unless someone reports successfully using this
> driver while r8169 does not work.
>
>
> Andreas
Hello,
I use it right now on sid.
r8169 works, but in my configuration (bond-alb and NFS mounts), I sometimes
loose connection.
No such problems with r8168.
$ lsmod | grep r8
r8168 536576 0
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
Release: unstable
Codename: sid
$ uname -r
4.16.0-1-amd64
$ dkms status
nvidia-current, 390.48, 4.15.0-3-amd64, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 390.48, 4.16.0-1-amd64, x86_64: installed
r8168, 8.045.08, 4.15.0-3-amd64, x86_64: installed
r8168, 8.045.08, 4.16.0-1-amd64, x86_64: installed
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