Re: [Thinstation-general] [Thinstation-developer] Intel D945GCNL support issue

[Trevor B. <tre...@us...>]

Quoting Gromersch Rene <Ren...@fn...>:

>
> So, here is what I did :
>
> I downloaded the source at Realtek of their r8168 driver and  =20
> compiled it in the thinstation src environnement.  Then I copied the =20
>  r8168.ko module to my Thinstation-2.2 environnement and edited the  =20
> build.conf file in wich I added the new compiled module.

Is it definitely the RTL8111B? Most of the issues we saw before were =20
the onboard RTL8111S.

As such we recompiled the realtek-r8169_ts2.2.tar.bz2 and packaged it =20
up on sourceforge (under thinstation package contribs for 2.2).

>
> This is working and now all my Gigabit 8111 networking cards are detected.
>
> I've attached the compiled module to this mail with a little HOWTO  =20
> in it so you won't have to do the compiling thing.
>
> Greetnx.
>
> Maybe it can be used to update the Thinstation 2.2 packages at  =20
> sourceforge ?  If someone knows how to upload it, you're comments  =20
> are welcome.

Already there as realtek-r8168_ts2.2.tar.gz

Trevor B

Trevor B
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> Objet : [Thinstation-general] Intel D945GCNL support issue
>
> Hi,
>   I am having Intel Orignal D945GCNL Motherboard which is having  =20
> RTL8111B Giga LAN chipset onboard, and i am running thinstation  =20
> through etherboot boortom on RTL8139 external NIC, i have already  =20
> disabled onboard NIC from the BIOS
>
>  and built thinstation image from linux box other computers on  =20
> network working fine with the same bootrom & thinstation image, but  =20
> around 10 computers which i got new into my setup are halting on  =20
> Configuring & Starting network...
>
>  as i understand it may be problem with RTL8111B Giga  onboard LAN,  =20
> in thinstation there is no support for such chipset, and after  =20
> disabling from BIOS also linux kernel tries to detect drivers for  =20
> the same, so anybody help me with this issue, if possible please  =20
> send the procedure for adding new drivers to thinstation image,  =20
> which are not currently supported by thinstation.
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> VN
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