The weird thing is that it seems to be working? Either I misdiagnosed the problem, or maybe my old one was just broken.

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    16 hours ago

    Man that reminds me that I bought a Chinese motherboard to build my homelab and installed Debian. Great! One kernel upgrade later and my network card stopped working. Tried a lot of things but to preserve my mental health and to enjoy my jellyfin again, I just returned to the older kernel and voilá, everything worked again…so no updates for now …or ever

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      11 hours ago

      Sounds like a rockchip board like orangepi haha. It’s funny because they actually have some killer hardware, but documentation on kernel drivers and DTB boot chain is sketchy at best.

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      16 hours ago

      Have you ever compiled your own kernel? Could be the upgraded version doesn’t enable a module your motherboard needed or something. A fairly simple test would be to compile thw kernel with everything enabled as a module and use that

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        14 hours ago

        I did it once but I remember not being able to judge if I needed all the modules or what to flag on each line I saw. I tried to load the module this time after the upgrade but without success. Maybe I’ll try someday if I get the time…

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      Same happened with me and a USB video capture card I bought specifically for Debian Linux compatibility. One kernel upgrade later… doesn’t work. Try again on old kernel? Works. I’ll probably try in a few months, but I can’t be bothered now.

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        14 hours ago

        Same here…O have around 20 containers running on my potato server and I really enjoy using them…not enough time to debug this thing.