Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:28:15 +0300 | From | Thanasis <> | Subject | RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) |
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I have an Acer Aspire One notebook, and it has a NIC as shown below:
# lspci |grep -i Realtek 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
The driver module that I use is r8169. It works with 2.6 series of kernels, but it does *not* with the recent 3.x of kernels.
Here is the output of ethtool with the 2.6.38 kernel:
# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: No Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Link partner advertised pause frame use: No Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) drv probe ifdown ifup Link detected: yes
Question: Should I stick with 2.6 kernels, or are there any directions on how to make the NIC work with recent 3.x kernels?
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