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Bug 229315 - Realtek rtl8102E bug in kernel source.
Summary: Realtek rtl8102E bug in kernel source.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers
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Reported: 2008-06-24 23:05 UTC by Jon
Modified: 2008-06-25 16:10 UTC (History)
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Description Jon 2008-06-24 23:05:43 UTC 
Using a Toshiba Satellite with the Realtek rtl8102E ethernet card.  When the rtl8169 driver is compiled against the kernel (2.6.24) I get a Kernel Oops error when booting.  For some reason I can't find a mention of this anywhere in regards to Gentoo, but Ubuntu seems to be working on it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/225749

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a Toshiba Sattelite laptop with Realtek rtl8102E ethernet card.
2. Compile the rtl8169 driver against the 2.6.24 kernel.
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Expected Results:  
Computer should boot and I should have an ethernet driver.
Comment 1 Duane Griffin 2008-06-25 01:16:21 UTC 
So the patch that is supposed to fix this is 21e197f231343201368338603cb0909a13961bac, posted here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/17/298

It looks like this patch has been added to the stable series and is in gentoo-sources 2.6.25. Could you confirm that gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r5 works for you, please?
Comment 2 Jon 2008-06-25 16:10:01 UTC 
Confirmed. Upgrading to 2.6.25 fixed the problem.  Thanks all!