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linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 package

  1. Bug #212497
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 212497

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Tomasz Puton (tputon) wrote : Re: r8169 driver does not work with Realtek RTL8111C gigabit ethernet chip in Ubuntu 8.04 beta

I managed to compile the driver at last!

But there are very weird problems...

Although the r8168 is compiled and loaded and r8169 blacklisted, "lsmod | grep r8" returns me both 'r8168' and 'r8169' despite the fact that I blacklisted r8169 !!! (both /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-network contain 'blacklist r8169'). It looks like blacklisting doesn't work...

And if I manually remove r8169 by typing 'sudo modprobe -r 8169' it keeps on loading after reboot (even while it's blacklisted at the same time!!!). I use ubuntu 8.04 on AMD64.

If I go to 'System -> Advanced -> Drivers' I can see that r8168 is loaded. But it seems that network manager doesn't work with this driver.

Any ideas how to fix it? I guess it's a big bug...

Tomek