on 09/20/2012 08:47 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote the following: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Thanasis <thana...@asyr.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)
dmesg.tar.bz2
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