Bug 238187

Summary:	RFE: Please add support for the RTL8111/8168B PCI Express network cards to the RHES5 kernel
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Bernd Bartmann <bernd.bartmann>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.1	CC:	agospoda, jgarzik, milan.kerslager, mishu
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Reopened
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2008-02-26 16:37:55 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Bernd Bartmann 2007-04-27 19:40:44 UTC

Description of problem:
The kernel that comes with RHES5 does not yet have support for the RTL8111/8168B
PCI Express network card. The card is now supported in FC7T4 and so it should be
in RHES5 as more and more mainboards have this on-board by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Milan Kerslager 2007-08-22 11:01:55 UTC

The kernel kernel-2.6.18-36.el5 from Beta channel for RHEL5 does not support
"RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller" yet even this is widely
used chip.

Comment 2 Andy Gospodarek 2007-09-12 17:45:51 UTC

Can either of your post the output of lspci and lspci -n so I can see the
specific PCI id's that are not working.  Thanks!

Comment 3 Andy Gospodarek 2007-09-12 17:48:48 UTC

Ivan has some patches for rhel5 that should hopefully resolve this, but the
output from either reporter would be nice so we can be sure.

Comment 4 Milan Kerslager 2007-09-13 04:25:34 UTC

On ASUS M2A-VM board (lspci and lspci -n):

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

03:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 01)

Comment 5 Ivan Vecera 2007-09-17 15:01:24 UTC

Hi, this bug seems to be duplicate of bug #247142. I built a test kernel
packages so could you please test it on your hardware and report a test result?
(http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/bz247142/)

-- Ivan

Comment 6 Milan Kerslager 2007-09-18 05:54:22 UTC

Yes I'm able to see the interface. I'm not able to test it yet. I'll try switch
cables tomorow.

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth1: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc2000006a000, 00:1a:92:6f:e2:b2, IRQ 209

I'm not able to view bug #247142. Is the problem only in PCI's id?

Comment 7 Ivan Vecera 2007-09-18 09:05:04 UTC

No, for bug #247142 and also for bug #248534 was backported r8169 driver from
upstream.
Now I'm waiting for your todays test and if will it be OK then I mark this bug
as duplicate.

-- Ivan

Comment 8 Milan Kerslager 2007-09-19 17:32:38 UTC

It seems to work without any problem since I plugged the wire. Thank you.
Could do you upload src.rpm package too?

Comment 9 Ivan Vecera 2007-09-20 06:51:47 UTC

OK, you can now download the srpm from the same place.

Ivan

Comment 10 Ivan Vecera 2007-09-20 06:53:13 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247142 ***

Comment 11 Milan Kerslager 2008-02-12 12:24:42 UTC

As there is no public access to bug #247142, I have a question:
Is there any progress with Realtek Gbps NICs?

Comment 12 Ivan Vecera 2008-02-26 16:37:55 UTC

Yes, the patch was accepted and will be integrated in the RHEL 5.2 release.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247142 ***