On 10 February 2012 01:44, Jeff Siddall <n...@siddall.name> wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 07:12 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>>
>> On 9 February 2012 22:14, Alan Bartlett<a...@elrepo.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9 February 2012 20:55, Akemi Yagi<amy...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, I see that you have updated r8168. But Jeff mentioned "the r8169
>>>> driver" in his post ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm. I *thought* I saw a reference to the RTL8168 hardware using the
>>> distro r8169 driver . . .
>>>
>>> Perhaps Jeff will clarify "what is what", please?
>>>
>> Both the kmod-r8168&  the kmod-r8169 packages, from the ELRepo
>>
>> Project, have now been updated to use the latest Realtek tarballs.
>>
>> Whichever driver Jeff requires, the latest version is now available
>> from the repository.
>>
>> Alan.
>
>
> Hmmm... I didn't think there was an 8169 driver from RealTek.  Anyway, I am
> using the RealTek 8168 driver now.  The original kernel driver was the
> r8169.
>
> Here is what lspci says:
>
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
> PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)

That is what I (erroneously) assumed when I initially mentioned the
kmod-r8168 package. Having clarified that, I'm sure Akemi will now be
satisfied. :)

Alan.

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