StarFive sent me one of their VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC for evaluation and review. I got the model with dual Gigabit Ethernet and 8GB RAM, and I’ll report my experience with the Debian 12 “bookworm” ...

I’m not the only one to have this problem, and that’s an open issue in r8156 driver’s Github repo. Here’s the answer from the developer for reference: I suspect a problem on the ethernet adapter side, ...