On 7/13/2023 5:18 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote:
[Just a random passer-by that might have an idea?]
On 14/7/23 07:14, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
I filed report 1012859 to the Debian BTS over a year ago.
Nothing has been done so far, and I have one cripped system and one
dead system that needs to be upgraded to the most recent version, but
I can't really proceed until the proper files get included into the
Debian distro. Can someone please help?
It looks to me like you are missing the firmware-realtek[1][2]
(non-free) package?!
No, I am not missing it. The package is broken in Bullseye. The
firmware is there, but does not work. It worked just fine in Buster,
but when I upgraded to Bullseye, the 10G NIC completely quit working.
It's been over a year, so I don't recall everything I did, but I spent
many, many hours trying to get the new firmware working, and many more
hours trying to extract the firmware from the oldstable package, and
then quite a few more hours trying to compile from source, but nothing
worked. I could not even get the source code to compile.
The bottom line is the firmware from the Buster non-free distro
works perfectly well, but noone has come forth with a fix for Bullseye,
and I have no reason to believe the firmware from Bookworm will work.
The NIC is an Asus PEB-10G/57811-1S 10GbE SFP+ Network Adapter which
employs a BCM 57811S controller.
[1] https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/firmware-realtek
[2] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/firmware-realtek
If you haven't already tried, I'd suggest that you try a clean
bookworm install from ISO. FWIW bookworm now includes a separate
"non-free-firmware" repo that is enabled by default. So the official
installer should "just work".
I can try, but I really would not be well advised to do so until I
can get the dead system working again.
If not, then I would suggest opening a new bug against the current
installer. In the meantime, try manually installing the package (e.g.
copy the deb via a USB stick).
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Jeremy
