Bug#669052: [3.2.12 -> 3.2.14 regression] NIC RTL-8169 not loaded with last testing release

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

found 669052 linux-2.6/3.2.15-1
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Jean-Louis Mounier wrote:

> on Apr, 15, as I do almost every day, I did upgrade my testing release. The
> kernel 3.2.0-2-amd64 upgraded from 3.2.12-1 to 3.2.14-1.
> After reboot, my eth0 NIC is no longer detected.
> I installed firmware-realtec : same.
> As a workaround, I boot on an old 3.2.0.1 which was still present.
> The unstable version gives the same result.
> My NIC is detected in "other system information" :

Thanks for reporting it.

Odd.  There haven't been any changes to the r8169 driver between those
two releases.  If you downgrade to 3.2.12-1 (e.g. from [1]), does the
old version still work?

Please attach full output from "dmesg" from a good and bad boot.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://snapshot.debian.org/