Motherboards and Network Chips
I am trying to update Linux on my desktop. I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 network chip built into it. Installing Fedora_20 onto this is dead easy. If I try anything more recent, the networking does not work. I have tried Fedoras 22, 23, KFedora_23, and Ubuntu_15.04. When I boot from the install DVD, there is no network. I have even installed a wireless card. This works fine from Fedora_20. It does not work from KFedora_23. How up to date is Slackware these days? Normally, when something does not work, I go out on the internet and find a solution. Non-functioning network is an order of magnitude more difficult. I had network problems upgrading my laptop. I was able to overcome them, but we seem to have transitioned from an easy install of Linux, to a difficult one, at least for some motherboards and network chips. Has anyone figured out a reliable way to install Linux on this hardware? -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@teledyneoptech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
I have the same chipset: $ lspci -s2: -v 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8P67 and other motherboards Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 81 I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Memory at dc104000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at dc100000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169 So, check for 'r8169' or something similar. My kernel is 3.10.96. -- William On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 03:33:22PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
I am trying to update Linux on my desktop. I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 network chip built into it. Installing Fedora_20 onto this is dead easy. If I try anything more recent, the networking does not work. I have tried Fedoras 22, 23, KFedora_23, and Ubuntu_15.04. When I boot from the install DVD, there is no network. I have even installed a wireless card. This works fine from Fedora_20. It does not work from KFedora_23.
How up to date is Slackware these days?
Normally, when something does not work, I go out on the internet and find a solution. Non-functioning network is an order of magnitude more difficult.
I had network problems upgrading my laptop. I was able to overcome them, but we seem to have transitioned from an easy install of Linux, to a difficult one, at least for some motherboards and network chips.
Has anyone figured out a reliable way to install Linux on this hardware?
-- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@teledyneoptech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On 07/02/16 03:33 PM, Howard Gibson wrote:
I am trying to update Linux on my desktop. I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 network chip built into it. Installing Fedora_20 onto this is dead easy. If I try anything more recent, the networking does not work. I have tried Fedoras 22, 23, KFedora_23, and Ubuntu_15.04. When I boot from the install DVD, there is no network. I have even installed a wireless card. This works fine from Fedora_20. It does not work from KFedora_23.
I did a fresh install of Fedora 23 when it came out on the machine on which I'm typing this and it has the same Ethernet controller. I didn't have to do anything special for networking to work. It's currently running with kernel 4.3.4 without any problems. [root@jupiter ~]# lspci -s2: -v 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M4A785TD Motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29 I/O ports at c800 [size=256] Memory at f4fff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at f4ff8000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K] Expansion ROM at f7df0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01 Capabilities: [ac] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked- Capabilities: [cc] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169 [root@jupiter ~]# -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay + 1 647-778-8696
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