From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danie Wessels Subject: Re: NIC driver r8168 with r8169 for RTL8111/8168B and DGE-528T together Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:11:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4E2752A2.3030208@telkomsa.net> References: <4E26B198.4020606@telkomsa.net> <20110720122206.73898673@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from rrba-ip-smtp-1-4.saix.net ([196.25.240.238]:41131 "EHLO rrba-ip-smtp-1-4.saix.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751691Ab1GTWKs (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:10:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110720122206.73898673@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/20/2011 09:22 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:44:40 +0200 > Danie Wessels wrote: > >> I would like to use my onboard NIC (eth0) with its r8168 driver from >> RealTek together with my D-Link NIC (eth4=eth1) with its r8169 default >> driver from the install. > > The kernel developers do not support the use of out of tree > vendor drivers. If there is some reason the default kernel driver does > not work for your hardware, that is a bug that should be reported and > it will get fixed. > I understand from Ubuntu forum that this bug (#347711) with the r8169 driver for the RTL8111/8168B is in the Will-not-fix state due to (hardware?) it not being supported any more. That leaves a number of us with little options. .> Remove the 8168 PCI IDs from the r8169 driver and you should be set. gr8. I can give that a try...8^0 (some more hints....?) .>It ought to be supported by the kernel r8169 driver. See bugs listed on Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/141343 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/221499 https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/347711 And 0n Bug #347711 linux-kernel-bugs #12411 Duplicates of this bug Bug #76489 Bug #347670 .> Which problem(s) do you have with it ? No communication to outside devices. I can not ping my router through it but can ping its IP. What can I do now or where should I report it or how can I help? RTFM 4 rules.d = where? -- Dankie Danie Wessels