On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 11:29:51PM +0100, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support
wrote:
>
>
> Hello Ken,
>
> I am using the exact same driver with a 5.4.2 kernel and I have not
> experienced what you are describing. I am on my computer for many hours a
> day, and am surfing the web etc without any issue.
>
> I have a:
>
> realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
>
> It is an onboard network card.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher.
Hi Christopher,
thanks for both of your replies.
I had not been using the firmware on the older desktop builds, but
on the skylake I was already using it, and on the other desktop where
I've noticed problems I installed the firmware when updating to 5.4.5
and initially wondered if the firmware plus 5.4.5 were the fix.
Both machines are using the 8168g-2.fw files. But I've got two other
machines which ask for the same firmware. I don't think I've
installed it on those, and at least one is running a 5.4 kernel and
I have not noticed problems - but that machine only really got used
for tests without python2 this week (noted on -dev, and then I sent
an update to -book: no graphical browsers without python2, so usage
was a bit limited). Before this week I hadn't noticed any network
problems.
As well as hangs with ssh (for email) and editing files in nfs, I've
also seen failures today in firefox when downloading patch-5.4.6.xz
from kernel.org: conenction to kernel.org seemed ok, but the link for
the patch initially failed according to firefox (the message "have
you mistyped / do you want to retry", then when I retried I got the
popup for downloading it, which downloaded when I clicked on it,
followed by another popup for downloading it (presumably the first
was from the initial attempt and the second from retrying).
Of course it is possible that kernel.org was just slow (I've often
seen failures from other sites such as phoronix with older kernels
which resolve when I retry).
ĸen
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