On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Bob Gifford
I just bought a HP desktop with a Realtek NIC. It came with Vista installed, and the NIC works fine under Vista, but it will not work with Opensuse 11.
Yast thinks the NIC is installed and configured, but Suse won't connect. Ping commands, even to my local router, come back with "Network can't be reached".
Vista says that this is a Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0).
The issue is the Windows driver for that card puts the card into some state (disabled? "power save?") that the Linux driver does not bring the card out of. It could work to when stopping vista, shut down the computer and wait a few secs before turning it on. It could also work to enable WOL in Windows driver, or enable the boot ROM (PXE boot) of the LAN card in your BIOS settings. AFAIK the bug is not resolved for 11.0 but I would assume that 11.1 does have a newer Kernel. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404695 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org