On 05/09/2021 09:07, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 10:59:19PM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:07:48 +0200 Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallw...@web.de>
wrote:
> A number of Gigabyte boards from ~2009 have broken BIOS support, resulting in
the PHY
> reporting an invalid PHY ID. Realtek / Gigabyte don't release errata
information,
> therefore there's not much that can be done. In bugzilla.kernel.org you can
find
> workarounds that helped for some users, else use the r8168 driver.
In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207203 it was suggested to
enable the boot ROM in the BIOS and/or reinsert the r8169 kernel module.
Neither of these worked for me. Fortunately the r8168-dkms package does
work. Thank you for the suggestion, as I was not aware of this driver.
According to the discussion, there is not something to patch on the
kernel side and rather likely a BIOS bug. So closing the bug.
The r8168-dkms package asks for bugs to be filed when it works but the
in-kernel driver doesn't. I guess this bug already counts for that.
