Bug#992886: r8169: no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0xc1071002

From	Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#992886: r8169: no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0xc1071002
Date	2021-09-08 13:00 +0200
Message-ID	<CV3t8-Ww-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	(4 earlier) <CPH9U-6J1-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <CSH3H-71N-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <CTVnX-6Hi-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <CPH9U-6J1-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <CTVnX-6Hi-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On 05/09/2021 09:07, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 10:59:19PM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:07:48 +0200 Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@web.de>
>> wrote:
>> > A number of Gigabyte boards from ~2009 have broken BIOS support, resulting in the PHY
>> > reporting an invalid PHY ID. Realtek / Gigabyte don't release errata information,
>> > therefore there's not much that can be done. In bugzilla.kernel.org you can find
>> > workarounds that helped for some users, else use the r8168 driver.
>> 
>> In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207203 it was suggested to
>> enable the boot ROM in the BIOS and/or reinsert the r8169 kernel module.
>> Neither of these worked for me. Fortunately the r8168-dkms package does
>> work. Thank you for the suggestion, as I was not aware of this driver.
> 
> According to the discussion, there is not something to patch on the
> kernel side and rather likely a BIOS bug. So closing the bug.

The r8168-dkms package asks for bugs to be filed when it works but the 
in-kernel driver doesn't. I guess this bug already counts for that.

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Bug#992886: r8169: no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0xc1071002 Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@web.de> - 2021-08-25 08:10 +0200
  Bug#992886: r8169: no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0xc1071002 Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> - 2021-09-02 00:40 +0200
    Bug#992886: r8169: no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0xc1071002 Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> - 2021-09-08 13:00 +0200

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