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How does your driver find its way into recent Linux kernels?

Open Keks-Dose opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

The kernel version 6.11 may contain a r8152 module, but it does not work in my case (a Lenovo hybrid docking station). If I download your version here, compile and install it (make, depmod -a, make install) it works.

I opened a bug report with my distro: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232668

Idea there: Maybe the kernel contains an old version of your driver?

Thank you for your time and effort.

Keks-Dose avatar Nov 26 '24 17:11 Keks-Dose

This is not our driver, this is the upstream realtek driver (modulo a few fixes to make it buildable on recent kernel versions).

The realtek driver diverges from the one distributed in the linux kernel, and usually includes new features/hardware support sooner. If you wait long enough, your hardware will eventually be supported in the linux kernel... In the mean time, you can use this repository...

hcartiaux avatar Dec 19 '24 17:12 hcartiaux