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Realtek Unknown device 8168 (rev 01)?!

boyan7640
Hello, Astaro fans and Astaro team.

I had problems with one of the NIC (on-board) in MyAstaro box. Astaro SG V7 lspci told me this: 
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8168 (rev 01)


My motherboard is Intel BLKD945GCNL: http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d945gcnl/configs.htm

Intel website tell us that LAN Controller is Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the RealTek RTL8111B-GR*.

I read Astaro SG V7 HCL: http://www.astaro.com/lists/HCL-ASG-V7.txt . I see only RTL-8169 in it from the Realtek Ethernet Gigabit NICs.

BTW, I tested the NIC with two LiveCDs, with different Linux distributions and everything was O.K. with the network card (using r8169 linux driver as module).

I decided to manually load r8169 module with modprobe. The module was loaded successfully but nothing happen after that (udev didn't create for me the eth1 device). Maybe I am using the wrong driver?!

I want to try the drivers from Realtek website (r8168-8.003.00.tar.bz2) but Astaro doesn't have "make" (gcc and so on) and I can't compile the module(driver).

The NIC card is enabled in BIOS by the way!

I have two short questions:
1. Is this NIC supported by Astaro SG V7?;
2. Is there a way to make this NIC to work on Astaro SG V7?

PS: The same Astaro box has got one more NIC on the PCI slot - VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 43). It's working with via_rhine driver.

SINCERELY yours,
Boyan Boychev
REYCON Ltd., IT Security Dept.
Sofia, Bulgaria


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    1.  Not supported by Astaro currently... I would expect that eventually they would add support for newer NICs, but I wouldn't sit around and wait for it
    2.  There may be a way to add it manually, but you would void any support (if you are running a commercial license), and it would be subject to failure if, say, a new up2date loads that tinkers with the network system.

    I'd just put a NIC in that is supported.

    CTO, Convergent Information Security Solutions, LLC

    https://www.convergesecurity.com

    Advice given as posted on this forum does not construe a support relationship or other relationship with Convergent Information Security Solutions, LLC or its subsidiaries.  Use the advice given at your own risk.

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    1.  Not supported by Astaro currently... I would expect that eventually they would add support for newer NICs, but I wouldn't sit around and wait for it
    2.  There may be a way to add it manually, but you would void any support (if you are running a commercial license), and it would be subject to failure if, say, a new up2date loads that tinkers with the network system.

    I'd just put a NIC in that is supported.

    CTO, Convergent Information Security Solutions, LLC

    https://www.convergesecurity.com

    Advice given as posted on this forum does not construe a support relationship or other relationship with Convergent Information Security Solutions, LLC or its subsidiaries.  Use the advice given at your own risk.

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