Comment 64 for bug 141343

Have you updated to 9.04? It seems to be fixed in that revision.
Dean

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From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Rotonen
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:58 PM
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Subject: [Bug 141343] Re: r8169 driver does not work with Realtek
"PCI-E"8111B integrated network controller

So, anyone on this?

I've now got one quite useless home office fileserver with something
which reports to be an RTL8111/8168B (rev 03) in lspci.

I've tried various Ubuntu provided r8169 drivers, all the r8168 drivers
from Realtek and all of the r8169 drivers from Realtek.

Nothing works. I have not been able to get eth0 visible even once.

In dmesg the last thing to occur with the r8169 drivers is "irq x for
msi/msi-x" and with the r8168 drivers "unknown chip version, assuming
RTL8111B/8168B" (which I think is different from RTL8111/8168B).

Yes, getting a proper network adapter is a valid option, but you still
cannot ignore the existence of the problem.

So, is it in the Realtek drivers or deeper in the kernel in the PCI-E
stack?

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r8169 driver does not work with Realtek "PCI-E" 8111B integrated network
controller
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Status in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in "linux-source-2.6.22" source package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
Status in The Hardy Heron: Invalid
Status in linux in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released
Status in linux-source-2.6.22 in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22

Hello!
(I have already submitted information via Kubuntu device database;
Submission Id: 47f10a94b24e91a660a54f0bf6d0ddf2).

I use Kubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5 and made updates recommended by adept notfier.
Current kernel version on my system is
2.6.22-11-generic. I have Athlon x2 4000+ with MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital
motherboard. The motherboard has integrated Gigabit
Realtek 8111B controller; however, my network switch supports only 100Mbps.

When computer boots, module r8169 is loaded, but the adapter is not
functioning (pinging gateway gives "network is unreachable" message). I had
to download and compile r8168-8.003.00.tar.bz2 from realtek.com.tw .
Driver r8168 works for my controller, but I could not get rid of r8169,
which loads after each reboot and gets in the way. When I do manually unload
r8169 and load r8168.ko and restart the network service, then only LAN comes
up.

To summarize the problems:
1) Gutsy Gibbon alpha includes a driver (r8169.ko) which does not actually
support the hardware (RTL8111B) it detects as supportable.
2) Gutsy Gibbon alpha does not include r8168.ko driver which DOES support
that hardware.
3) The two drivers conflict with each other: when r8169 is loaded before
r8168 , the network controller is not operative.

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Yuri Baranov