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Re: Re alTek 8201CL NIC driver request

by TrevorB :: Rate this Message:

Quoting Gasel <l.escala@...>:

>
>
> Trevor Batley wrote:
>>
>>
>> After my second message? I made sure that the updated driver from
>> sourceforge was on the USA site.
>>
>> r8168
>>
>> Trevor B
>>
>>
>
> I tried both r8169 & r8168, without success !!!
> I googled for the 8168 and 8169 NICs and I saw that the RTL 8168 seems to be
> based on a 8111 chip, as the RTL 8169 seems to be based on a 8110 chip.
> In fact, my NIC is a 8201CL.

<quote from RealTek>
RTL8201, RTL8201BL, RTL8201CL, RTL8201CP, RTL8201N and RTL8211B(L) are
all PHYceiver. That is a driverless hardware device. Software driver
are relative to Network controller ( MAC ) which is integrated into
chipset in such case mostly. Please contact your mother board maker or
chipset manufacturer to obtain proper driver support.
</quote>

So it is either using the nvidia driver (forcedeth is the nvidia
supported nic driver for linux) or another onboard. I thought I had
found out that your board used the 8111B, but I guess I looked at the
wrong page as a revisit didn't show this.... It only shows the nvidia
stuff.

If the forcedeth doesn't work, it's either not using the nvidia mac
(eg. another onboard chip) or the forcedeth driver is too old. In the
seconf case you could try 2.3b2, which has a newer kernel.

Trevor B

> Furthermore, this NIC is a 10/100 Mbits card while 8111 and 8110 chips are 1
> Gbits cards.
>
> Do you think that the link
> http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html FreeBSD
> Device Driver for NVIDIA nForce Network Adapter refers to the correct
> driver for this NIC ? If yes, could this driver be added (when you can, of
> course...)
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Gasel
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