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Bug#558316: netinstall fails with a Realtek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet card



Hi

On Saturday 28 November 2009, Emmanuel Blot wrote:
> Package: netinstall
> Version: sorry, don't know how to obtain that info, see below for the
> package reference and date.
> 
> Hardware:
>    Intel D945GSEJT, Atom processor N270 @1.60Ghz, 1GB DDR2
>    Technical specs:
> http://downloadmirror.intel.com/17597/eng/D945GSEJT_TechProdSpec.pdf
> 
> Software:
>   Debian netinstall dated 05-09-09 04:25, downloaded from
>     http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
>   Linux kernel: 2.6.26-2-486 #1 Wed Aug 19 05:40:02 UTC 2009
[...]

The Intel D945GSEJT mainboard ships with a RealTek rtl8168d network card,
which wasn't supported before kernel 2.6.31. Be aware that starting with
Debian's kernel 2.6.32, you'll need a binary firmware as well 
(rtl8168d-1.fw and rtl8168d-2.fw), which are not available yet.

> :eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8820000, 00:1c:c0:xx:xx:xx, XID 281000c0 IRQ 219

this seems to be a rtl8168d-2.

> "r8169: eth0: link down", while the physical link is actually plugged in:
>   * status leds on Ethernet socket are green,
>   * status leds on the peer switch device to which the device is
> connected are green as well
> 
> lspci reports:
> "01.00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)"
> 
> 
> I don't think the issue is related to the environment, as on the very
> same hardware environment and the same PXE/DHCP server, the Ubuntu
> 9.10 net installation successfully completes under the same
> conditions.
> 
> Let me know if you need more details.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

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