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The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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1680 points etbusch | 3 comments | 19 May 22 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nagisa ◴[19 May 22 13:38 UTC] No.31434483[source]▶
Could you elaborate on why realtek was chosen for the ethernet expansion card? It does tend to have a pretty bad rep, with one of the recent documentations being https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.h...
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whazor ◴[19 May 22 13:46 UTC] No.31434578[source]▶
Seems to be that the realtek driver issues are mostly for Mac users, which will not be really an issue for Framework users.
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1. nfriedly ◴[19 May 22 14:01 UTC] No.31434770[source]▶
FWIW, I just had a realtek USB ethernet adapter take down my network twice last week when I was trying out with an Android tablet.

It's part of a powered USB hub, and it works fine while the tablet is connected, but after disconnecting the tablet, the ethernet controller stays active, and about half an hour later my entire home network stops working. I had to disconnect the realtek adapter and reboot my network switch each time.

So, their problems are not entirely limited to mac.

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2. howinteresting ◴[19 May 22 14:50 UTC] No.31435402[source]▶
That's not limited to Realtek:

https://twitter.com/chx/status/1457848563199721472

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3. nfriedly ◴[19 May 22 15:25 UTC] No.31435917[source]▶
Ok, maybe that one is partially the switch's fault.

Also, here's a better link for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/qo6r3f/powere...