linux-kernel - Re: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:10:25 +0300
From:	Thanasis <thanasis@...r.hopto.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

on 09/20/2012 08:47 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote the following:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Thanasis <thanasis@...r.hopto.org> wrote:
>> I have an Acer Aspire One notebook, and it has a NIC as shown below:
>>
>> # lspci |grep -i Realtek
>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
>>
>> The driver module that I use is r8169. It works with 2.6 series of
>> kernels, but it does *not* with the recent 3.x of kernels.
>> Question: Should I stick with 2.6 kernels, or are there any directions
>> on how to make the NIC work with recent 3.x kernels?
> 
> Can you collect the complete dmesg logs from both 2.6.38 and the 3.x
> kernel?  This should just work, so maybe something got broken.

Attached are the dmesg outputs from 2.6.38 and 3.5.4 kernels (file
dmesg.tar.bz2)


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