On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Baruch Siach <bar...@tkos.co.il> wrote: > Hi Dotan, > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:32:13PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I need to build the LAN drivers for an ASUS P8H61 MLX motherboard with >> no internet access on Kubuntu 12.04. The driver is available here: >> http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2 > > These NICs should be well supported in recent kernels.
On a stock install of Kubuntu 12.04 (and previous versions that I tried, and openSuse 12.1) the kernel tries to use the r8169 driver. That is obviously wrong! > Make sure that you have > the firmware-realtek package installed. Doesn't seem to be available: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firmware-realtek > If the firmware for your NIC is > missing from firmware-realtek (rtl8402-1.fw and rtl8411-1.fw currently) get it > from > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtl_nic;h=433ba2c0164f9809221d969d3d60e605575790fc;hb=HEAD, > and copy to /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/. > Thank you. I am reinstalling the OS after some failed tinkering, I will try that. > Hope this helps. > I hope so too! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
