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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001126 | channel: elrepo/el7 | kmod-r8168 | public | 2021-08-08 01:00 | 2021-08-09 11:45 |
| Reporter | Vasarhelyi Zsolt | Assigned To | pperry | ||
| Priority | low | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | sometimes |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | x86_64 | OS | Centos | OS Version | 7 |
| Summary | 0001126: Please update kmod-r8168 to latest 8.049.02 | ||||
| Description | Driver available at https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software Current kernel is 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 Have tried kmod-r8168 few months ago on past kernel but didn't seem to work, no network detected after reboot. Trying to avoid using buggy 8169 default driver for RTL8111E/RTL8168E chips. Thanks you. | ||||
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Acknowledged. |
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Hi, I've updated the driver to the latest upstream 8.049.02 source. I've also specifically enabled -DCONFIG_R8168_VLAN, -DCONFIG_ASPM, -DENABLE_S5WOL, -DENABLE_EEE which were not specifically enabled before and enabled -DENABLE_USE_FIRMWARE_FILE which is new. I notice on RHEL7, some newer firmware may be missing from /usr/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/ for newer devices. If this is the case, the driver will probably warn you in DMESG and the missing firmware can probably be obtained from the upstream kernel firmware repo, downloaded manually and dropped into the /usr/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/ directory to work around this. The following packages have been uploaded to the elrepo testing repository and are currently syncing to mirror sites. They should be available to download and install shortly. r8168-kmod-8.049.02-1.el7_9.elrepo.src.rpm kmod-r8168-8.049.02-1.el7_9.elrepo.x86_64.rpm You can install and test with: yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-r8168 and reboot the machine to ensure the new driver is loaded. Please let us know if the driver works as expected for you. Thanks |
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If you have missing firmware for your device, you can extract them from the latest kernel firmware here and drop the missing files into /usr/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git |
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No message about missing firmware, kmod-r8168 seems to load and work fine. Not tested under network load yet, only thing that hits me is: [ 8.132056] r8168: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 8.132057] r8168: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 8.133389] r8168: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel Thank you. |
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Great, thank you for the feedback. The messages you have highlighted above are normal (relating to SecureBoot), and to be expected on systems where our SecureBoot key has not been installed. I will move the packages to the main repository now. Please file a new bug if you come across any issues. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2021-08-08 01:00 | Vasarhelyi Zsolt | New Issue | |
| 2021-08-08 01:00 | Vasarhelyi Zsolt | Status | new => assigned |
| 2021-08-08 01:00 | Vasarhelyi Zsolt | Assigned To | => toracat |
| 2021-08-08 01:00 | Vasarhelyi Zsolt | File Added: r8168-8.049.02.tar.bz2 | |
| 2021-08-08 04:29 | toracat | Note Added: 0007763 | |
| 2021-08-08 07:50 | pperry | Assigned To | toracat => pperry |
| 2021-08-08 07:50 | pperry | Description Updated | |
| 2021-08-08 07:57 | pperry | Note Added: 0007764 | |
| 2021-08-08 07:57 | pperry | Status | assigned => feedback |
| 2021-08-08 08:03 | pperry | Note Added: 0007765 | |
| 2021-08-09 10:14 | Vasarhelyi Zsolt | Note Added: 0007766 | |
| 2021-08-09 10:14 | Vasarhelyi Zsolt | Status | feedback => assigned |
| 2021-08-09 11:45 | pperry | Note Added: 0007767 | |
| 2021-08-09 11:45 | pperry | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2021-08-09 11:45 | pperry | Resolution | open => fixed |
