Realtek gigabit ethernet (8168) support

I confirm this bug on A6JC laptop.

Also V6J has the same problem.

Also the same problem with the Asus W2Jc

Is there a method to compile the r1000 driver from the Live CD to accomplish at least a first inatall? which linux-header version and from xhere ?

Hi,

I noticed your post on the bug 33532 at ubuntu launchpad (quoted below) and
I was wondering, have you got any luck installing Nvidia drivers on your
laptop, since it's the same as mine?

On 4/20/06, uqbar <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Also V6J has the same problem.
>
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> Realtek gigabit ethernet (8168) support
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/33532
>

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Jyrki // <email address hidden>

Hi,
I am sorry, my laptop has an ATI X1600 video card. And did not manage
install yet untill the problem of the driver's ethernet card is resolved.
I installed under Fedora 5 easily ... now I try with ubuntu ... but the
problem with ubuntu is that as the kernel is changing daily (because it
s a beta), I have then to recompile every time LOL

regards

J. Pulliainen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I noticed your post on the bug 33532 at ubuntu launchpad (quoted below) and
> I was wondering, have you got any luck installing Nvidia drivers on your
> laptop, since it's the same as mine?
>
> On 4/20/06, uqbar <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Also V6J has the same problem.
>>
>> --
>> Realtek gigabit ethernet (8168) support
>> https://launchpad.net/bugs/33532
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jyrki // <email address hidden>
>
>

I tried to compile the r1000.ko driver for this ethernet card in the Beta2 and Flight7.
The problem is that there is no make and gcc compiler .. etc ..
When I tried to get the buil-essential from here, I found that there are many tentacular dependencies which make the minimum install of gcc compiler very hazardous ... Any other suggestion ?

Here's an idea we managed to put together with another V6J-user. You need a computer capable to get to internet (If you use dual boot, that's just fine) and an usb stick or any other media to move packages around. Build-essentials should be found on CD.

Note that this is not any good solution, just a quick fix to the problem for the time it's fixed properly.

Also, you need to do this again for every new kernel you install.

Apt-get works without network connection as long as the data that needs to be installed is on cd. You have to install build-essential -package to be able to compile. Luckily that package can be found on cd, so it should go ok as long as you have cd in drive and you just commence apt-get install build-essential

After that it gets tricky and this is the part where you need an another working computer. You have to download a few .deb packages, first, the new kernel image, which can be found at
 http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/base/linux-image-2.6.15-20-686

 and then headers for that image (2 packages)
 http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/devel/linux-headers-2.6.15-20-686 and
 http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/devel/linux-headers-2.6.15-20

Copy those on usb disk and move them to your ubuntu install. Install packages with sudo dpkg -i <packagename> and after that link the build directory to right place:
 cd /lib/modules/2.6.15-20-686
 sudo ln -sf /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-20-686 build

Now you can go to the directory where you extracted the r1000 sources and write
 sudo make clean install && sudo depmod -a && modprobe r1000

Takes a while and you should have a working ethernet adapter. After that, apt-getting stuff gets a lot easier :)

That's the best novel I heard today ... I didn't know that apt-get build-essential was on the CD .... now the horizon is widely cleared .. I try this this evening after work and I tell you ...
Thanks a lot

Hey guys....no need to compile anything...Ben Collins has just committed the r1000 driver in the ubuntu kernel...wait till next kernel upload (probably 2.6.15-23).

Thank you Ben Collin, you are doing a great job ... and thank for all the guys of this thread ... Now all is ok