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<p>Ciau Edoardo,</p>
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<p>I attached a driver for r8169 for kernel 4.4.39.</p>
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<p>I patched it following the example from etherlab. I'm compiling it with the headers of the latest version of etherlab, that is default branch, I think.</p>
<p>But you can replace the headers with whatever version of etherlab master you are using.</p>
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<p>It is working properly but it has a bug in it:</p>
<p>After powering up the system it works properly.</p>
<p>When a software reboot is performed, the system starts up and MAC address of eth1 if zeroed out.</p>
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<p>To workaround this problem, you need to unplug the machine from power, and replug it.</p>
<p>I know it is not prefect but you can definitely start working and developing on kernel 4.4 with this driver.</p>
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<p>I hope I will get to fixing this bug within about 2 months, not sure if I'll be available....</p>
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<p>Hope it helps you out.</p>
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<p>Nir.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> etherlab-users <etherlab-users-bounces@etherlab.org> on behalf of Edoardo idà <edoardo.ida@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:07:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> etherlab-users@etherlab.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [etherlab-users] News about kernel 4.x</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,
<div>I am quite new to ethercat thecnology and ethercat master but my supervisor at university of Bologna used your software to program one of the robot in out lab. </div>
<div>He built the ethercat master using a linux rt kernel 3.14 with e100 ethernet driver.</div>
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<div>I was wondering if there were some newer driver for 4.x kernel. I noticed recent activity in the development of version 1.5-stable and therefore my question. I would like to compile master ethercat with a r8169 net card and a kernel 4.4.</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance for any help.</div>
<div>All the bests,</div>
<div>Edoardo Idà, University of Bologna, Italy</div>
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