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To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <3887877.iIbC2pHGDl@zeus> From: Victor Ivanov Autocrypt: addr=vic.m.ivanov@gmail.com; keydata= mQINBF3g/JMBEAC4yM5z5iFHFBU8Zf92ZRB+6uH3ipSWXBYpP+23cdjXO0CFYnUykGSwzYb4 y0/nL1r5FDiNyciRb00QorIHqgi32yzTxApDEb12Bt0xOp8fbSIgEQcwU63Ig7IxQ4PRT5Wd dXdwvtU2ZntcrtDLaRM7ukjqlistrZQGWfHfuGW/7clD8huRVGywHSxFlkupfwVPzxjTQt1T KUs0zsbl4pmXgXfCtQT1t5I9XgJ3gjsh1k0iHaoTubdJwEhukeTNMOIDQACU17Bw/M0ZB70x TRpweOmXOGvEgX9JJQsNnllfo+Uq9vZ2YARc/T576YPNDbeMT6ili/Td81r7gjYGHF7vHaGr 8nWl6qp1/saqMaIlRrg+cpbmMx/p6NrbunYUq4uG73cYE4vW7IesvPqyFNRpYOpO2k482BJn WjsUlN7WqSMvBSVelxOzAAliieUbVft6YfqrLcm17W0fsxIse3i19u/qYP1eWIzHYNy+4rsr S8MIvHlEdL+2cvyPDzKv57G5Vo1sfBp8tkAcBEbYBVM8YLm6UU5nPFJxhy4Hly0MzYaPfsuy Le4D3VcjdLtXRVqISNnpgIjqnnPNuNcQf2e0olEKyv34I1Xd/th/2OozLdmSzaooyzI1fs1Q wbUC2Tpmi5oxlCXOw3HwJ/V/GhOGYtr9lA2AaouoqGf9xKCZxwARAQABtCZWaWN0b3IgSXZh bm92IDx2aWMubS5pdmFub3ZAZ21haWwuY29tPokCVgQTAQoAQAIbAQUJAeEzgAIeAQIXgAIZ 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gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3887877.iIbC2pHGDl@zeus> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jutHj3DCzpFJdjbj3jocxkIcK6rK4JfR4" X-Archives-Salt: 91940c37-004d-4280-9dd4-7a4e03e088ee X-Archives-Hash: ef7ccc1b83c47ebc46484e58fc43c9d2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --jutHj3DCzpFJdjbj3jocxkIcK6rK4JfR4 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="sqNHWZlWUxznQY7piv9ejdh024qauyJSA" --sqNHWZlWUxznQY7piv9ejdh024qauyJSA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Alexander, A while back I had the exact same issue with a remote machine that I am managing. It has an Asus B45-M mobo with an r8169 chipset. Ever since the 5.2.x kernel family - where it last used to work - it has been a pain= =2E Initially I added a manual "soft" dependency in "/etc/conf.d/modules" as William has suggested to you with "realtek" appearing first in the list. But this stopped working following an update to 5.4.x and is still the case today with the 5.6.x family (I keep testing it once in a while). I then decided to build both realtek and r8169 modules into the kernel: REALTEK_PHY=3Dy CONFIG_R8169=3Dy It did require a bit of faff as the whole chain of dependencies from REALTEK_PHY had to be built in as well, but I think that was about 5-6 kernel options in total. Adding it to the ramdisk as William suggests might work too. In my case I didn't bother trying this due to the fact that every failed attempted required manual intervention by someone to get the machine booted with working kernel. I have a gut feeling that tells me adding it to the initrd probably won't work. But if you're planning on trying it, please keep us posted. I would be very interested in hearing your solution. Regards, V On 17/05/2020 09:07, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there >=20 > I just upgraded an older notebook with r8169 network chip to new kernel= 5.4=20 > (sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.28) with genkernel.=20 > After booting the new kernel the network adapter was not initialized, n= o=20 > network interface eth0. > Dmesg says > [ 6.390973] r8169 0000:08:00.0: realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it need= s to be=20 > added to initramfs? > [ 6.392864] r8169: probe of 0000:08:00.0 failed with error -2 >=20 > After searching with google I found a thread in the kernel mailing list= > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D204343 > The cause is a soft depencency to module realtek.ko, which needs to be = loaded=20 > first. >=20 > Doing this manually, i.e. rmmod r8169 && modprobe realtek && modprobe r= 8169=20 > works fine; network interface eth0 gets configured and is operating. >=20 > Since the kernel loads the network module before systemd is running, it= has to=20 > be configured in initrd somehow. > So, the final question is, how to get that into initrd with genkernel? > I need to add something like this >=20 > cat /etc/modprobe.d/realtek=20 > Softdep r8169 pre: realtek >=20 > How do I get this into initrd with genkernel-next? >=20 > Thanks in advance > Alex >=20 > PS=20 > Profile: > default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd >=20 > Relevant packages: > sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration-7 > sys-apps/kmod-26-r5 > sys-apps/systemd-244.3 > sys-kernel/genkernel-next-69 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.28 >=20 > Lspci > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 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