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| The Realtek r8168B network card does not work out of the box in Redhat, Centos, | | The Realtek r8168B network card does not work out of the box in Redhat, Centos, |
| Fedora, or Ubuntu: instead of loading the r8168 driver, modprobe loads the r8169 | | Fedora, or Ubuntu: instead of loading the r8168 driver, modprobe loads the r8169 |
| driver, which is broken as can be seen with ifconfig which shows large amounts | | driver, which is broken as can be seen with ifconfig which shows large amounts |
| of dropped packets. | | of dropped packets. |
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| t | One solution found by `Barry Mavin <http://www.recital.com/>`_ is to remove the | t | One solution found by Barry Mavin is to remove the r8169 driver and install the |
| r8169 driver and install the latest r8168 driver. | | latest r8168 driver. |
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| Steps to install Realtek r8168 driver | | Steps to install Realtek r8168 driver |
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| **The dropped packets problem should appear fixed! w00t!** | | **The dropped packets problem should appear fixed! w00t!** |
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| | | Some people notice r8169 driver returning after reboots. To prevent this you mi |
| | | ght need to clean the cache using the following command: |
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| | | .. code-block:: bash |
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| | | update-initramfs -u |
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| One solution found by `Barry Mavin <http://www.recital.com/>`_ is to remove the | | One solution found by `Barry Mavin <http://www.recital.com/>`_ is to remove the |
| r8169 driver and install the latest r8168 driver. | | r8169 driver and install the latest r8168 driver. |
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| t | Steps to install Realtec r8168 driver | t | Steps to install Realtek r8168 driver |
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| The Realtek r8168B network card does not work out of the box in Redhat, Centos, | | The Realtek r8168B network card does not work out of the box in Redhat, Centos, |
| Fedora, or Ubuntu: instead of loading the r8168 driver, modprobe loads the r8169 | | Fedora, or Ubuntu: instead of loading the r8168 driver, modprobe loads the r8169 |
| driver, which is broken as can be seen with ifconfig which shows large amounts | | driver, which is broken as can be seen with ifconfig which shows large amounts |
| of dropped packets. | | of dropped packets. |
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| t | One solution found by Barry Mavin is to remove the r8169 driver and install the | t | One solution found by `Barry Mavin <http://www.recital.com/>`_ is to remove the |
| latest r8168 driver. | | r8169 driver and install the latest r8168 driver. |
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| Steps to install Realtec r8168 driver | | Steps to install Realtec r8168 driver |
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| t | | t | Realtek NIC driver r8169 dropping packets on linux ubuntu and fedora |
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| | | Many motherboards nowadays have integrated gigabit ethernet that use the Realtek |
| | | NIC chipset. |
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| | | The Realtek r8168B network card does not work out of the box in Redhat, Centos, |
| | | Fedora, or Ubuntu: instead of loading the r8168 driver, modprobe loads the r8169 |
| | | driver, which is broken as can be seen with ifconfig which shows large amounts |
| | | of dropped packets. |
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| | | One solution found by Barry Mavin is to remove the r8169 driver and install the |
| | | latest r8168 driver. |
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| | | Steps to install Realtec r8168 driver |
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| | | * Download the R8168B linux driver: |
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| | | .. code-block:: bash |
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| | | wget http://www.foxhop.net/attachment/r8168-8.023.00.tar.bz2 |
| | | tar vjxf r8168-8.023.00.tar.bz2 |
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| | | * Check whether the built-in driver, r8169.ko (or r8169.o for kernel 2.4.x), is |
| | | installed: |
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| | | .. code-block:: bash |
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| | | lsmod | grep r8169 |
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| | | * r8169 seems installed if the lsmod command returns output, so remove r8169 wit |
| | | h: |
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| | | .. code-block:: bash |
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| | | sudo rmmod r8169 |
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| | | * install the Realtec r8168b nic driver: |
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| | | .. code-block:: bash |
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| | | cd r8168-8.023.00 |
| | | sudo ./autorun.sh |
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| | | * prevent the r8169 driver from loading again: |
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| | | .. code-block:: bash |
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| | | echo "blacklist r8169" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf |
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| | | * you may now verify that r8168b has been installed and loaded by running: |
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| | | .. code-block:: bash |
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| | | lsmod | grep r8168 |
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| | | **The dropped packets problem should appear fixed! w00t!** |