Realtek PCI-E Gigabit driver

Serene32 · 12-12-2006, 10:20 AM

Hi,
I have a ASUS P5B motherboard with a Realtek PCI-E gigabit (10/100/1000) network card. I am running Fedora Core 6 and I would like to know where I can download a driver?

Thanks

Furlinastis · 12-12-2006, 10:27 AM

I think the module is called r8169? Try modprobe r8169 or pcimodules and it should be there.

Serene32 · 12-12-2006, 11:43 AM

lspci shows that the Ethernet controller is RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(rev 01).
modprobe r8169 doesn't show anything. It might be the r8169 but I don't have the driver.

Hiw do I get it?

Thanks

Furlinastis · 12-12-2006, 12:16 PM

If you do pcimodules it should output all the modules available. You wouldn't download the driver because the driver should already be present in the kernel. I don't know whether or not fedora has the driver compiled in or as a module, but it depends on the person configured the kernel.

OH.. I'm sorry, I read your post wrong, I thought it was regular old PCI. r8169 would be the PCI version of your card, so heh... it wouldn't work.

Could also try modprobe r1000?

Also here:

Reaktek drivers

But I wouldn't know how to install it.

Serene32 · 12-12-2006, 02:52 PM

Thank you for the pointer to the Realtek drivers. I downloaded the r1000 driver. It came with a README indicating how to install it. Now it works.

Thanks

cizzi · 01-29-2007, 10:18 PM

does your asus p5b work completely with fedora core 6? im shopping for a motherboard..

claudio

Serene32 · 01-30-2007, 08:17 AM

Yes. The ASUS P5B works very well except for the integrated network for which I could not find a proper driver. I had to purchase another 10/100 NIC.