Hello list, I decided to find out why the kernel had trouble loading the r8169 module on my Intel NUC server. I found <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1061944-start-0.html> which seemed to tell me all I needed to know.
I got this result after installing sys-apps/fwts and running it: --------------------- Test 1 of 2: PCIe ASPM ACPI test. PCIe ASPM is not controlled by Linux kernel. ADVICE: BIOS reports that Linux kernel should not modify ASPM settings that BIOS configured. It can be intentional because hardware vendors identified some capability bugs between the motherboard and the add-on cards. --------------------- The BIOS offered two choices: PCIe ASPM support enable/disable Native ACPI OS PCIe Support enable/disable I've tried all four combinations of those settings and got almost the same result: the boot-up console output complained that the r8169 module couldn't be loaded because it was already in the kernel. (I think that's just a coder's assumption from the inability to load the module.) The only tiny difference was in the fwts log: that PCIe ASPM was or was not controlled by the kernel. Is there a way forward from here, or should I just ignore it and get on with life? -- Regards, Peter.
