Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)
On 4/14/2010 9:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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
>
Same here. Realtek 100mbit and GigE chips have always worked great
regardless of kernel version. The chipsets that have horrible support
are the Marvell adapters that use the 'sky2' module.
See this thread for details (sky2 module has still not been fixed since
its introduction in 8/2006):
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-487018-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html
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