On Thursday 08 October 2009 13:19:45 Stan Goodman wrote:
The NIC in this Vostro 1510 notebook is shown by Network Devices as:
. The kernel is v2.6.27-9-default.
Having found the PCI ID of the card (10ec:8168), and acquired the appropriate driver file from the RealTek site, I attempted to install it, following precisely the instructions given in its readme file, which says that the driver is intended for v2.6 kernel..
Btw. why do you need this at all? Doesn't the rt8169 driver support this card? I just looked at the 2.6.31 kernel and there it does support it as far as I can see, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126