Re: NIC not detected, unable to install (weekly + daily mini-iso)
El 2020-04-15 a las 17:15 -0400, Lennart Sorensen escribió:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:42:33PM +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> > Umm... this is an old netbook, the NIC adapter has always been working,
> > it's a very common chipset.
> >
> > Good point.
> >
> > While this is a 2 GiB RAM netbook, last time I checked only i386 and
> > -pae kernel were working, but I can try again with amd64 image.
> >
> > (testing right now...)
> >
> > Well, the net-iso (64 bits) just loads fine. Logs here say (I must have
> > mispelled the ID before):
>
> Well it is an atom based machine. Some were 64 bit capable, some
> were not.
>
> > «r8169 0000:01:00.0 unknown chip XID 240».
>
> Yeah the driver does not have that id in it. I guess it was a version
> used only by HP/Compaq and no one ever tried to run linux on it or at least
> no one that did cared about wired networking. It might be a trivial case
> of adding the id to match one of the other revisions to make it work,
> but without the datasheet it is hard to know.
(...)
Thanks.
Time to file a bug, as this is something for the kernel people.
Just for reference:
RTL810xE chipset not detected, network card unusable
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956868
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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