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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	2021-09-02 00:40 +0200
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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.

Roger

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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

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