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Main reason for the Realtek OEM drivers is PTP and RSS support. <div><br></div><div>Tuan<br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature" style=""><a style="font-size:12px" href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=9d3a686e-218d-4849-8298-b480188dc8ac&af_android_url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail%26listing%3Demail_signature">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(113, 95, 250); padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 2:07 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@gmail.com> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail" style=""><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM Farkas Levente <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lfarkas@lfarkas.org" href="mailto:lfarkas@lfarkas.org">lfarkas@lfarkas.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM Akemi Yagi <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com" href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com">amyagi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Hi Levente ,<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Thanks for the note. I suppose there is no "one-size-fit-all" solution<br clear="none">>> to the issue. The original reason why r8169 was blacklisted was that,<br clear="none">>> with the kmod-r8125 in RHEL 10, it still used the r8169 driver. Of<br clear="none">>> course, when you have 2 NICs, the situation is not as simple as<br clear="none">>> disabling one driver or the other.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> We'd like to get a good and reasonable solution but in the mean time,<br clear="none">>> we could revert the change if that works as a temporary fix.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> we just install a fresh almalinux 10.1 without any kind of external repo to computer which has 2 different realtek card:<br clear="none">> # lspci -nn|grep -i eth<br clear="none">> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:8125] (rev 05)<br clear="none">> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8161] (rev 15)<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> and it's working fine with the original r8169 driver with 2.6Gb/s.<br clear="none">> so what was the reason for kmod-rr8125?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Our kmod is built from the source downloaded from Realtek. The<br clear="none">changelog has this:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- Update to 9.016.01<br clear="none">- Disable fiber support<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You don't need this package is the original driver in the kernel is<br clear="none">working fine.<div class="yqt6158295499" id="yqtfd38510"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Akemi<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">elrepo mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org" href="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org">elrepo@lists.elrepo.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo" target="_blank">http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo</a><br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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