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Re: RealTek 8201CL NIC driver request

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On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 22:10 +1000, Trevor Batley wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:00 +0200, Laurent ESCALA wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > We have been using ThinStation for many years in a elementary school
> > (about 30 terminals with Win2003 server)
> > Recently, we bought some new PCs with motherboard MSI K9N6PGM2-V with
> > a RealTek 8201CL NIC (see K9N6PGM2-V)
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is no pre-compiled driver for this NIC (the
> > forcedeth driver does not work). Moreover, I only found this link for
> > such card FreeBSD Device Driver for NVIDIA nForce Network Adapter
> > I'm not sure it is the correct one !
> >
> Try the r8169 driver (on the DK or USA TSoM's).

Actually add in both the r8169 & the r8168 on the USA TSoM (the MSI site
seems to indicate that it's the r8169, but other linux sites seem to
indicate that it could also be the r8168.....)

Trevor B

>
> Trevor B
>
> > It would be great to add this NIC to TS-O-MATIC, as I'm not very
> > familar with Linux !
> > Could someone help me ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> > Gasel (South France)
> >
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