Hi everybody, I have a new Sager np4750 laptop that has a Realtek gigabit ethernet card that uses the r8169 driver in the kernel. On doing the amd64 install, Debian identified the card without problem. I can load the module and bring up the eth0 network interface. However, I can't pass any traffic, either by DNS or by IP address (I can't even ping my gateway). I get an error message "Netdev Watchdog: eth0: transmit timed out". I have tried building a new stock kernel (2.6.14) but the result wasn't any different. I then tried building the driver as downloaded from Realtek's website, but it failed to build. I don't know if that problem pertains to the driver's code, or simply with trying to build it for amd64 (sorry, this is my first amd64 CPU -- so I'm new to 64 bit computing). Has anybody else had a similar problem with the r8169? Should I first try to install the 32 bit version of Debian to verify that it will work in that version? I guess I just don't know if this is just an r8169 driver problem, or a problem with it in the Debian amd64 port, or something else. I have found some other linux users (Mandrake and Gentoo users) on the web using this driver in the 64bit versions of their distro, without problem.
Can anybody help? Thanks! Bryan Walton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
