[SOLVED] Realtek RTL8111C Controller Compatibility

[Sweet Spot]

Great news Oz ! Glad you were looking for it. Now we can look forward to a few more fully operational (damn I want to say battle station so bad !) NIC's. Hope it works for you , I'm already good to go.

Doug

[oz]

Yippee... the new driver compiled and is working great as I type this!

Will report back if it should break if it should break after a reboot...

[oz]

* Just an update for anyone else having issues with this controller:

Something strange is going on, because now the link to the driver is showing the older driver that would not compile on Arch and lots of other distributions, and the driver date is showing July 18, 2008.

It appears that they may have pulled the 8.007.00 driver that was posted on July 17th, and put the older driver back up. Not sure why they may have done that, but I was never able to get the 006 version of the driver to compile at all, and apparently lots of others weren't either.

Maybe they'll repost the new driver in the next day, or two.

[oz]

Just wanted to update this with another possible fix for anyone that might need it...

The issues described above were all fixed with the installation of the newest kernel (2.6.26), and the onboard 8111c network controllers are now working properly with the r8169 drivers already included with the new kernel.

Hope it helps someone.

[davepl]

Hi, I've struggled with the same problem with opensuse 11 and have found that compiling the r8169 driver into the kernel fixes the bug 99% of the time.
I have found that the revision code comes up as 0xFF when the nic fails and on mine 0x02 when it does work. Do you experience the same behavior?
I see from the postings in archlinux, the problem should be solved in the 2.6.26 series of kernels and I am about to try that.