Control: reassign -1 r8168-dkms On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 10:52 +0200, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:09:14AM +0200, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > > The module for my "Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor > > Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller > > [10ec:8168] (rev 09)" does not get loaded at boot under 3.14-2-amd64, > > but does on previous kernel versions. This device works with both the > > r8168 and the r8169 modules, but previous kernels loaded r8168. > > I did some more investigating, and it turns out that I had r8168-dkms > installed, and in its long description: > > Installation of the r8168-dkms package will disable the in-kernel r8169 > module. To re-enable r8169, the r8168-dkms package must be purged. > > My hypothesis is that either r8168-dkms failed to compile the DKMS > module locally on my end for 3.14-2 (most likely), and since the > r8168-dkms package was installed, the kernel didn't load r8169 either; > or that r8168 managed to compile it and 3.14-2 refused to load it, and > since the r8168-dkms package was installed, the kernel didn't load r8169 > either. After purging r8168-dkms, r8169 started getting loaded properly > by 3.14-2 at boot. > > Thus, this is likely a non-bug. Sorry for the noise. It's a bug in r8168 that it failed to compile. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. - Robert Coveyou
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