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On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: |
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> I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I |
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> installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was |
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> preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from |
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> eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless |
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> install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still |
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> would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge |
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> the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek |
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> site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own |
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> environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well), |
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> networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking |
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> around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169 |
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> or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel |
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> |
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> >2.6.19 and <2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a |
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> spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any |
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> suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network |
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> access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to |
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> get this NIC working? |
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install a recent kernel like 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (just download the sources, |
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unpack them in /usr/src, create the linux symlink). And use the in kernel |
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r8169 drivers. |
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Don't use 'vendor' drivers if you don't have to! |
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> Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC |
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> working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and |
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> perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD. |
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> I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to |
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> update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware |
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> issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with |
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> Vista. |
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you might want to use the 2008-beta livecd for this - this way you don't have |
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with a lot of very messy stuff (like expat). And wine is.. evil. Every |
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release breaks something. If your stuff works at all. |
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