i got a new asus p7p55d board with a realtec nic which is named "RTL8112L". However the card is recognized as r8169, the driver is loading and i got a working connection. Under heavy network load my box is freezing completely, randomly. As i figured out why my box is locking up (i'm suffering some other issues like freezing box with speedstepping/turboboost) i got another driver from the realtek website, which is r8168-8.015.00. So far, this driver seems much more stable for that card, i have no more lockups. Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: r8168 Gigabit Ethernet driver 8.015.00-NAPI loaded Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: r8168 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: r8168 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: r8168 0000:02:00.0: irq 35 for MSI/MSI-X Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: r8168: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US5,307,459, US5,434,872, US5,732,094, US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625. Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8168D/8111D'. Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: eth0: RTL8168B/8111B at 0xffffc90000070000, 90:e6:ba:19:40:55, IRQ 35 Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: r8168 Copyright (C) 2009 Realtek NIC software team <nicfae@xxxxxxxxxxx> Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, please see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Dec 13 14:57:17 vampire kernel: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. I just wanted to know if this r8168 driver is supposed to make it to new kernel releases. Are these kernel drivers directly maintained by Realtek? cteg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
