http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529496 Summary: r8168 Gigabit Ethernet driver is not present in Build 201 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jerbes@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090714 SUSE/3.5.1-3.1 Firefox/3.5.1 I can't connect to the network with Opensuse 11.2 Factory Build 201, because the r8168 Gigabit Ethernet driver is not present with the kernel modules. The system loads the r8169 driver, but it do'nt works. With dmesg, I obtain: r8168 Gigabit Ethernet driver 8.012.00-NAPI loaded vendor=1022 device=9607 r8168 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 r8168 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 r8168: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US5,307,459, US5,434,872, US5,732,094, US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625. eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8168D/8111D'. eth0: RTL8168B/8111B at 0xf9990000, 00:30:67:10:75:48, IRQ 221 r8168 Copyright (C) 2009 Realtek NIC software team In Opensuse 11.1, with the kernel 2.6.27.25-0.1-pae I must to use the r8168 driver from the kernel 2.6.27.23_0.1-3.1-pae from the repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/drivers:/nic/openSUSE_11.1_update/ The motherboard I use is a Biostar-TA790GX-A3+: http://www.trustedreviews.com/motherboards/review/2009/07/23/Biostar-TA790GX... They are a lot of new motherboards with the same network chip. http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:QZij6sxWZC8J:forums.novell.com/attachments/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise-desktop-sled/sled-networking/2036d1228810538-network-card-not-solved-yet-readme.txt+RTL8168D/8111D+linux&cd=1&hl=es&ct=clnk&gl=ar&client=firefox-a http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/402117-gigabyte-ga-ex58-ds4-real... http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2008/12/11/432 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/susenovell-60/r81698168-network-card... http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1064992.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Opensuse any version in a system with the r8168 Gigabit Ethernet 2. Try to configure it with Yast 3. Try to make "modprobe r8168" Actual Results: The system loads the r8169 driver, but it do'nt works. Expected Results: The driver r8168 must be present in the kernel modules -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.