RTL8168/8111 on Puppy 2.13 Not recognised
Posted: Tue 13 Feb 2007, 11:47
I have a shiny new E6400 on a Gigabyte GA-945P-S3 MB with 1 Gig RAM, 250 Gig SATA HD, and an X300 Video card.
Puppy 2.13 works great except that it won't recognize the on-board NIC, which is a Realtek RTL8168/8111.
The NIC works fine in Windoze XP (using the driver on the MB CD). It also worked in Xubuntu 6.10 from a recent APC cover disk. I downloaded the driver (not using Puppy), r1000 v1.05 and tried to build it in puppy 2.13 but I get compile errors, due to conflicting declarations.
Any suggestions? Looking at the code, there seems to be a duplicate declarations of some routines, some have a FASTCALL attribute, some have a fastcall attribute, and some have neither.
Any chance of this driver appearing in zdrv_2xx any time soon?
Alternatively, I read somewhere that the 8168 is supported in the 2.6.19 kernel. What is the frequency of kernel updates in puppy os?
Please be gentle with me, I'm new around here. Its the first time I've tried doing any kernel type stuff in Linux...
For what its worth, I found Xubuntu to be very unhelpful when it came to doing things like mounting my Windoze partitions - Puppy's MUT was miles ahead.
TIA.
Puppy 2.13 works great except that it won't recognize the on-board NIC, which is a Realtek RTL8168/8111.
The NIC works fine in Windoze XP (using the driver on the MB CD). It also worked in Xubuntu 6.10 from a recent APC cover disk. I downloaded the driver (not using Puppy), r1000 v1.05 and tried to build it in puppy 2.13 but I get compile errors, due to conflicting declarations.
Any suggestions? Looking at the code, there seems to be a duplicate declarations of some routines, some have a FASTCALL attribute, some have a fastcall attribute, and some have neither.
Any chance of this driver appearing in zdrv_2xx any time soon?
Alternatively, I read somewhere that the 8168 is supported in the 2.6.19 kernel. What is the frequency of kernel updates in puppy os?
Please be gentle with me, I'm new around here. Its the first time I've tried doing any kernel type stuff in Linux...
For what its worth, I found Xubuntu to be very unhelpful when it came to doing things like mounting my Windoze partitions - Puppy's MUT was miles ahead.
TIA.