Bug#956868: Use Realtek's r8101 driver

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 7 May 2020 12:20:54 +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:

Hello,

> RTL8401 (XID 240) was never supported by r8169.
> Having said that nothing was dropped from the driver.
> And most likely you don't have to compile r8101 yourself,
> most distro's have a pre-compiled package.

How that can be? This computer perfectly detected the ethernet card 
years ago (2013), using kernel 3.9.0-rc2 (Debian nomenclature) and r8169
driver:

(dmesg excerpt)

[    0.000000] Linux version 3.9.0-rc2 (root@stt300) (gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5) ) #1 SMP Sun Mar 17 22:49:53 CET 2013

[    0.000000] DMI: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Mini CQ10-500 /148A, BIOS F.15 01/14/2011

[    6.558651] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    6.573693] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[    6.574014] r8169 0000:01:00.0 (unregistered net_device): unknown MAC, using family default
[    6.574358] r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
[    6.575005] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: RTL8101e at 0xf8268000, 68:b5:99:d3:c1:d8, XID 04000000 IRQ 43:

(pci devices excerpt)

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:148a]
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 43
    Region 0: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
    Region 2: Memory at 90004000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Region 4: Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: r8169

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón