Bug 1630268

Summary: r8169 network driver does not work on 4.18 kernel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Mev <zikamev>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 28CC: airlied, bskeggs, ewk, hdegoede, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jcline, jglisse, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, kernel-maint, linville, mchehab, mjg59, steved
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Description John Mev 2018-09-18 09:55:48 UTC 
Created attachment 1484328 [details]
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Description of problem:

r8169 network driver does not work on 4.18 kernel

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How reproducible:
Upgrade from 4.17 to 4.18 kernel


Steps to Reproduce:
1. open terminal
2. ping localhost : it works
3. ping router or elesewhere does not work neither displays the number of packets sent.

Actual results:


Expected results:
connect worldwide

Additional info:
Tried also to replace the r8169.ko by the one from 4.17. does not work either.
Comment 1 Jeremy Cline 2018-09-18 13:40:47 UTC 
Hi John,

Can you see if it's also present on the latest rawhide kernel[0]? There were a handful of r8169 fixes in the last week which haven't filtered back to stable yet.

[0] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1145280
Comment 2 John Mev 2018-09-22 15:29:50 UTC 
Hi Jeremy

actually all works fine with the new 4.18.8 kernel

Thanks
Comment 3 Jeremy Cline 2018-09-24 13:00:59 UTC 
Great, thanks for letting us know