From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
To: Karsten Wiborg <karsten.wiborg@web.de>,
nic_swsd@realtek.com, romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 not working on 5.2.0rc6 with GPD MicroPC
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:09:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85548ec0-350b-118f-a60c-4be2235d5e4e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a560a5e-17f2-f6ff-1dad-66907133e9c2@web.de>
On 29.06.2019 22:34, Karsten Wiborg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> writing to you because of the r8168-dkms-README.Debian.
>
> I am using a GPD MicroPC running Debian Buster with Kernel:
> Linux praktifix 5.2.0-050200rc6-generic #201906222033 SMP Sun Jun 23
> 00:36:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> Got the Kernel from:
> https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.2-rc6/
> Reason for the Kernel: it includes Hans DeGoedes necessary fixes for the
> GPD MicroPC, see:
> https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi
> (btw. I also tried Hans' 5.2.0rc5-kernel which also did not work with
> respect to Ethernet). Googling of course didn't help out either.
>
>
> My GPD MicroPC with running r8169 gives the following lines in dmesg:
> ...
If r8169 (the mainline driver) is running, why do you want to switch
to r8168 (the Realtek vendor driver)? The latter is not supported by
the kernel community.
> [ 2.839485] libphy: r8169: probed
> [ 2.839776] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: RTL8168h/8111h,
> 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 541, IRQ 126
> [ 2.839779] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200
> bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
> ...
> [ 2.897924] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eno1: renamed from eth0
>
>
> ip addr show gives me:
> # ip addr show
> ...
> 2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
> default qlen 1000
> link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> ...
>
Seems like the network isn't started.
>
> ethtool gives me:
> # ethtool -i eno1
> driver: r8169
> version:
> firmware-version:
> expansion-rom-version:
> bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
> supports-statistics: yes
> supports-test: no
> supports-eeprom-access: no
> supports-register-dump: yes
> supports-priv-flags: no
>
>
> lspci shows me:
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
>
>
> Installing r8168-dkms fails with the following errors:
> Setting up r8168-dkms (8.046.00-1) ...
> Removing old r8168-8.046.00 DKMS files...
>
> ------------------------------
> Deleting module version: 8.046.00
> completely from the DKMS tree.
> ------------------------------
> Done.
> Loading new r8168-8.046.00 DKMS files...
> Building for 5.2.0-050200rc6-generic 5.2.0-rc5-gpd-custom
> Building initial module for 5.2.0-050200rc6-generic
> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel:
> 5.2.0-050200rc6-generic (x86_64)
> Consult /var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.046.00/build/make.log for more information.
> dpkg: error processing package r8168-dkms (--configure):
> installed r8168-dkms package post-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 10
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> r8168-dkms
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> Does that help you?
> Do you need more data?
> Thank you very much in advance for hopefully looking into this matter.
>
> Regards,
> Karsten Wiborg
> .
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-29 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-29 20:34 r8169 not working on 5.2.0rc6 with GPD MicroPC Karsten Wiborg
2019-06-29 21:19 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-06-29 22:09 ` Heiner Kallweit [this message]
2019-06-30 0:14 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-06-30 9:12 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-06-30 12:40 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-06-30 14:55 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-06-30 16:03 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-06-30 17:42 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-06-30 21:29 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-06-30 21:55 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-06-30 22:21 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-07-01 5:50 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-07-01 13:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-07-01 18:15 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-07-01 18:51 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-07-01 19:07 ` Karsten Wiborg
2019-06-30 17:56 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-06-30 21:44 ` Karsten Wiborg
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