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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: pigdog on May 15, 2014, 07:28:35 pm
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Hi,
I have a Realtek RTL8169 chip for eth0 and a Realtek RTL81111/8168/8411 for eth1.
I downloaded and installed the r8168 driver from Realtek.
eth0 shows kernel driver in use:r8169
kernel module r8169
eth1 shows kernel driver in use:r8169
kernel module r8168, r8169
How do you get eth1 to use the r8168 driver?
If I blacklist the r8169 driver eth0 dies completely - ifconfig only shows eth1.
I've tried creating alias eth0 r8169 & alias eth1 r8168 in various mod* types of files (plus other things) but nothing seems to work.
Is this even do-able?
Cheers.
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I would check the original driver, move it out of the /lib tree, run depmod -a and reboot and see what happens.
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Hi posde,
I copied the r8169.ko to my Downloads directory and deleted the file in /lib/modules/3.2.0-61-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/
I did depmod -a
ifconfig shows eth0 & eth1.
lscpi -v still shows r8169 in use.
Cheers
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Hi,
BTW eth0 shows kernel driver in use:r8169 but no kernel modules:
while eth1 is kernel driver in use:r8169 kernel modules:r8168
Cheers.
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Hi,
I went back and removed r8169 (again) from the directory, then after depmod -a I did update-initramfs -u and now no eth0.
Back to the drawing board.
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Hi,
I broke down (ya cheap bastard) and bought a $25.00 PCIe Gig NIC card.
I disabled the on-board NIC in the BIOS.
Reloaded from scratch.
I can now do mtu 9000 on the Core/Hybrid using the r8169 module.
Cheers.