Control: reassign -1 r8168-dkms
On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 10:52 +0200, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:09:14AM +0200, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:
The module for my Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor
Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
[10ec:8168] (rev 09) does not get loaded at boot under 3.14-2-amd64,
but does on previous kernel versions. This device works with both the
r8168 and the r8169 modules, but previous kernels loaded r8168.
I did some more investigating, and it turns out that I had r8168-dkms
installed, and in its long description:
Installation of the r8168-dkms package will disable the in-kernel r8169
module. To re-enable r8169, the r8168-dkms package must be purged.
My hypothesis is that either r8168-dkms failed to compile the DKMS
module locally on my end for 3.14-2 (most likely), and since the
r8168-dkms package was installed, the kernel didn't load r8169 either;
or that r8168 managed to compile it and 3.14-2 refused to load it, and
since the r8168-dkms package was installed, the kernel didn't load r8169
either. After purging r8168-dkms, r8169 started getting loaded properly
by 3.14-2 at boot.
Thus, this is likely a non-bug. Sorry for the noise.
It's a bug in r8168 that it failed to compile.
Ben.
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