Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

[Wayne <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-14 21:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 8:28 AM:
> > > 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.
<-- SNIP -->

> > AFAIK, for those who roll their own kernels from kernel.org source, 
> > there's
> > no problem with RTL chips if you compile all blobs into the kernel.  For
> > those using stock Debian kernels, RTL chips have been a problem, and 
> > may yet
> > be again.
>
> Maybe if I ever get .32 or .33 I'll squeal in anger.  Until then...

 ~$ lspci |grep Real
 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
 [1]+  Done                    play 
/usr/local/sounds/identification.wav > /dev/null 2>&1


Running fine here since 2.6.26 and currently on 2.6.32-4-amd64. Stock
kernel images on testing.

Wayne