Samuel Verschelde

Can you try to identify why the down+up is necessary? Could others test the installation ISO, too?

Here are the sources we build ethtool from: https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/ethtool/tree/8.2 If we can find a patch that fixes this issue, I could be able to integrate it in the 8.2.1 release....

> > Can you try to identify why the down+up is necessary? > > Could others test the installation ISO, too? > > @stormi I probably found the problem. ethtool...

Thanks. Now I have also feedback for r8125 thanks to you. Is your Realtek card an USB one or PCI-E?

> For test purpose booted centos 7.2009 installer and ethtool works with igc. Did CentOS 7.9 recognise the device directly, or did you need to build the driver?

They probably backported the driver to their kernel.

Looking at how they did might reveal something we missed.

This was done but we forgot to close the issue.

The alt kernel will use built-in drivers whereas the main kernel uses out of tree vendor drivers, that sometimes lag behind in terms of bug fixing, or have specific bugs....

Given what I've seen of vendor drivers from qlogic/broadcom, I'm not entirely surprised that the built-in drivers from kernel.org fix bugs that the official drivers from the vendor don't. You...