On 6/10/2025 02:44, David wrote:
I realise that Debian 9 is very old, but it's the version that should work with the application I'm trying to load. Newer versions don't work. The issue I'm getting with Debian 9 is that the nic driver does not load. The nic required is rt18168e-3 Can I load this separately? David.
I don't have this card to test, but you can download the source from https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/r8168 - I was able to build it without any problems. Use sneakernet as needed:
# apt-get install build-essential# wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/r/r8168/r8168_8.055.00.orig.tar.bz2
# tar xfj r8168_8.055.00.orig.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src/ # cd /usr/src/r8168-8.055.00 # make -j$(nproc) # make install # depmod -a # Don't know if this is strictly necessary # modprobe r8168 You may need to copy the relevant firmware from a newer kernel tree. Hope this helps