Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM:
[snip]
> Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently supported
> well by Debian.  One might be able to make it work, but the process requires
> some serious hoop jumping.

Really?   RealTek chips are as common as flies on horse poop, and 
works perfectly for me.

$ lspci -vs 03:00.0
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
	I/O ports at ce00 [size=256]
	Memory at fddff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at fdde0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=64K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: r8169

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