Realtek 8111GR On C7
Hi list, I’m planning to buy a mobo (z170-K) that has Realtek 8111GR (nic).
I’ve tried to search on google about support on C7 but can’t fine anything.
There is a way to check if supported?
Is the Realtek 8111GR supported or I must change mobo?
Thanks in advance.
6 thoughts on - Realtek 8111GR On C7
You can get the Linux driver from http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=5&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown
Realtek is “real” good about getting drivers for their chips into the kernels as soon as possible. They are one of the few vendors that I have never had a problem with built in support…
Mike McCarthy
I have been using a small server with a Realtek 8111E under CentOS 7
without any problem.
Thank you for you reply.
Il 03/06/2016 14:28, Mike McCarthy, W1NR ha scritto:
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That has to be backported and rolled into the Red Hat kernels for EL
however, which can take longer.
We do have an experimental kernel that currently may require manual intervention to install here:
http://mirror.CentOS.org/altarch/7/experimental/x86_64/
We are using that for some IoT images on x86_64 and there is also one for i686 in that tree.
http://mirror.CentOS.org/altarch/7/experimental/i386/
Like I said, you may have to manually remove some conflicts with ivtv-firmware and some iwl*-firmware drivers .. it requires a new xfsprogs and you might have to manually remove xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse (it is now in the kernel as a module and no longer part of xorg-x11-drivers)
Anyway, I have installed that kernel on several machines and it seems to work well. It is based on the latest 4.4.12 LTS kernel and we will be maintaining it work IoT things.
There is also kernel-ml and kerel-lt from elrepo that may get updated at some point. You will likely still ne xfsprogs with kernels newer than
4.4.x though, regardless if they come from our experimental repo or elrepo.
Here are the links to the elrepo kernels:
http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el7/
xfsprogs issues:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314605
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314795
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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It should be supported by the unified R8169 kernel driver, but the only way to know for sure is to check the Device ID against the C7 kernel.