realtek 8111H land contoller

debianlearner · 05-26-2020, 05:57 AM

I understand that there have been problems using the
Realtek 8111H lan controller (fitted to many otherboards)
with Debian. Someone suggested using the
Intel EXP1930CTBLK PRO1000 network PCIe card to get round this problem.

Then I discovered that Debian Buster may have a Realtek
non-free package as part of its stable release, which overcomes
the 8111H problem.

Does anyone know what the situation is exactly ?

beachboy2 · 05-26-2020, 06:18 AM

debianlearner,

The Realtek 8111H does work (in Ubuntu 20.04 at least) but it uses driver r8169 which can lead to instability and slow connection speeds. This driver needs to be replaced with r8168.

I updated my blog accordingly:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...og.php?b=38257

In Debian the non-free freeware-realtek should achieve the same end.