On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/09/2012 07:12 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: >> >> On 9 February 2012 22:14, Alan Bartlett<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 9 February 2012 20:55, Akemi Yagi<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hmmm, I see that you have updated r8168. But Jeff mentioned "the r8169 >>>> driver" in his post ... >>>> >>> >>> Hmm. I *thought* I saw a reference to the RTL8168 hardware using the >>> distro r8169 driver . . . >>> >>> Perhaps Jeff will clarify "what is what", please? >>> >> Both the kmod-r8168& the kmod-r8169 packages, from the ELRepo >> >> Project, have now been updated to use the latest Realtek tarballs. >> >> Whichever driver Jeff requires, the latest version is now available >> from the repository. >> >> Alan. > > > Hmmm... I didn't think there was an 8169 driver from RealTek. Anyway, I am > using the RealTek 8168 driver now. The original kernel driver was the > r8169. > > Here is what lspci says: > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B > PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) > > Jeff
Please go to ELRepo FAQ #4 at http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ and identify the Vendor:Device ID pairing of your controller. Then you can find out which driver to use by looking through the device ID page at http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs . Akemi
