Realtek RTL8169 and RTL8110 NIC

[JohnT]

Has anyone got a built-in kernel driver to work with this NIC? The r1000 provided by Realtek is preported to work on some installs. I have an RTL8101/8102 that the r8169 refuses to work on and there is nothing in my kernel (2.7.27.7-smp)that fits.

[LewRockwell]

Have you tried the latest Puppy Linux LiveCD yet?

http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/official-releases/latest-production-release

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[JohnT]

LewRockwell sez
Have you tried the latest Puppy Linux LiveCD yet?
I've used Puppy in the past...good distro.


Found a driver...the r1000_v1.113 from Realtek's site...works like it was built for it. LOL:D
Posting from Slackware 12.2

[JohnT]

As I said I got connected, but know I notice that I have to re-establish my pppoe connection after the first initiation as I can't browse or ping untill I do. Once I pppoe-down then pppoe-up again then I am able to resume as normal. I've tried killing ifconfig eth0 and restarting, but that's not the area that seems to be problematic.Anyone down that road before? Hurry before I Google it!:p