https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205#c7
--- Comment #7 from Benjamin Poirier
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1) In/against openSUSE 12.1: [opensuse] Install help for Network driver (Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:27:02 -0400) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-03/msg00676.html especially: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-03/msg00765.html
There is some confusion in that thread:
As suspected your software system uses a r816*9* kernel module (...9) but your hardware is a Realtek [...] RTL8111/816*8*B [10ec:816*8*] (...8).
Despite it's name, the r8169 module is meant to drive cards based on the realtek 8168/8111 chips. The difference between the two modules is that: r8168 is a binary-only driver provided by realtek r8169 is a community-developped and supported driver While it is the case that r8168 usually supports newer chips first, the version of r8169 currently in openSUSE 12.1 supports all the chips I've seen in circulation so far. IMO, steering users towards r8168 is ill-advised as it will be extremely difficult to find some developpers willing and able to provide support for it. Secondly, lspci output is insufficient to determine the chip version as many of them share a small set of pci ids. A first step in identifying the chip version is the (masked) XID line found in the kernel logs as pointed out at the end of comment 4. The chip version is identified from the (unmasked) XID in rtl8169_get_mac_version() http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.1.10/drivers/net/r8169.c#L1724 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.