On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 01:31 -0700, David Gehrt wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 02:48 -0700, David Gehrt wrote: > > > I have F8 running on an HP a6400f with an rtl8111/8168 10/100/1000 > > > Ethernet interface for which the kernel installed the r8169 driver, > > > which didn't work. No matter what I tried the interface refused to > > > transmit. > > > > > > I have seen several posts on the web, mostly from ubuntu people. Is > > > thee a fix for F8 (my kernel version on this system is still > > > 2.6.23.1-42.fc8). > > > > Apologies for the delay, I've been busy. > > Not to worry about the delay.I appreciate the response. > > > I ran into this myself recently, though on FreeBSD (although I would > > have thought linux would have it licked by now). BSD doesn't have any > > solution to this, even building the drivers didn't work. Realtek don't > > make drivers, so only 3rd parties do it. The only solution I and others > > have come up with is to install a supported card (rtl8139 is a nice > > one... :) ). > > I came up with the same (but IMHO unsatisfactory) work around. After > 20+ years of building my own systems I have a flock of Ethernet cards, so > I used an Intel 10/100 (Ether pro?) card, but this POS HP system has only > one slot, fortunately I don't need the modem that came ins that slot. I > really miss Fry's This was my first purchase of a whole pre-built > system. Not a good result. Of course HP does not support Linux (or > FreeBSD for that matter). Me too, strangely enough... A whitebox though. I've always had trouble with the intel nics so I stay well clear of them. Therefore, the realtek nics being my fav. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
