On 17-11-29 09:35:04, Cameron Seader wrote:
> On 11/29/2017 03:37 AM, Petko Manolov wrote:
> > On 17-11-29 06:11:22, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 07:51:06PM -0700, Cameron Seader wrote:
> > > > Greetings, The upstream kernel seems to be outdated with version 1.09.9
> > > > of the drivers/net/usb/r8152.c driver. There is newer hardware now
> > > > which
> > > > requires the newer version where running with the old one becomes
> > > > unstable. For example the latest Dell Precision 5520 uses this driver.
> > > > I
> > > > have currently tested the newest driver I can find which is dated
> > > > 8/30/2017 at version 2.09.0.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=56&PFid=56&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#RTL8153
> > > >
> > > > Attached is the driver.
> > > >
> > > > I have compiled this newer driver on Kernel 4.14.1 on openSUSE
> > > > Tumbleweed and have been successful with no issues. It certainly is a
> > > > lot more stable than the previous which caused issues coming out of
> > > > sleep mode where it would drop the speed of the NIC to 100 and set it
> > > > to
> > > > half duplex.
> > > >
> > > > I'm asking that we please look at updating this driver in the latest
> > > > kernel.
> > >
> > > Care to submit patches to update the existing in-kernel driver to provide
> > > the support that this out-of-tree driver has? That's the only way this
> > > is
> > > going to happen :)
> >
> > Magic firmware blobs in the source. I love it... :)
> >
>
> Petko,
> Does this mean your looking into this update?
Sorry, I am not sure what you mean.
Petko
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