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Ethernet RTL 8168 driver on Debian

Published by tex on December 6, 2016

By default on Debian is used 8169 driver instead of 8168 (Realtek ethernet driver). Also, 8168 driver does not exist. ~# find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/ -name *816* /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko The network device ~# lspci |grep Ether 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 09) The loaded driver ~# lsmod |grep…

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Ethernet RTL 8168 driver on CentOS

Published by tex on November 6, 2016

By default on CentOS 6.x is used 8169 instead of 8168 driver for Ethernet. Network device display (lspci output): [root@static89 ~]# lspci|grep Eth 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 09) Loaded driver: [root@static89 ~]# lsmod|grep 816 r8169 74378 0 From dmesg output: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI…

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