Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Shawn Heisey
I left out the answer to one of your questions. Yes, the firmware-realtek package is installed. It is version 0.28+squeeze1. During my temporary 3.2 backports kernel experiment, I also upgraded all the firmware packages to the matching version from backports. This may be indirectly significant

Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 00:20 -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: I left out the answer to one of your questions. Yes, the firmware-realtek package is installed. It is version 0.28+squeeze1. During my temporary 3.2 backports kernel experiment, I also upgraded all the firmware packages to the matching

Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/13/2013 11:42 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: - There is no firmware patch for your LAN-on-motherboard chip (RTL8168B). - There is a firmware patch for the chip on the PCIe card (RTL8168D), but this was never included in the driver in Debian kernels (except in some experimental versions).

Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:00 -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: On 10/13/2013 11:42 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: - There is no firmware patch for your LAN-on-motherboard chip (RTL8168B). - There is a firmware patch for the chip on the PCIe card (RTL8168D), but this was never included in the driver