As indicated from SRU justification section, the solution is to backport a few new fw blobs. So the steps were to verify if the downloaded deb contains exactly the binaries I proposed:
and to find a spare platform, install that deb from bionic-proposed, boot with RTL8153 usb-ether attached, and check if network interface is available.
As indicated from SRU justification section, the solution is to backport a few new fw blobs. So the steps were to verify if the downloaded deb contains exactly the binaries I proposed:
$ dpkg-deb -R linux-firmware_ *.deb . rtl_nic/ rtl8153* firmware. git/rtl_ nic/rtl8153*
$ md5sum lib/firmware/
$ md5sum ~/linux-
and to find a spare platform, install that deb from bionic-proposed, boot with RTL8153 usb-ether attached, and check if network interface is available.