Re: Debian 9

[Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>]

At Sun, 5 Oct 2025 12:21:03 -0400 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 16:44:03 +0100, David wrote:
> > I realise that Debian 9 is very old, but it's the version that should
> > work with the application I'm trying to load. Newer versions don't
> > work.
> >
> > The issue I'm getting with Debian 9 is that the nic driver does not
> > load.
> >
> > The nic required is rt18168e-3
> >
> > Can I load this separately?
>
> The way I would approach this is to find the oldest Debian kernel
> package which includes this driver, and see if if works with Debian 9
> in your configuration.
>
> Usually, there is a great deal of flexibility to use older or newer
> kernels with a given Debian version.  You're not tied down to the
> kernel that comes with your release.  It's just a matter of ensuring
> that the kernel and userland aren't so wildly far apart that they
> can't work together.

I suspect that the driver is there -- it is just that the OP needs to do
something with modprobe or udev to "manually" load the driver, since
appearently, udev is not auto detecting the NIC out of the box.

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