On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Larry Linder
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> > Have you looked at ELRepo? Particularly, FAQ#4 at
>> > http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ may help you find the right driver for the
>> > NIC.
>> >
>> > Akemi

> The problem with the MB's using RTL8168/8111 has been know for a few years.
> The 32 bit version of SL 6.2 works - have not verified it.
> We need to use SL 64 our system.
>
> Installed Windows 7 on a spare disk, Internet found and worked - hardware is
> checked.
>
> Downloaded new driver from "realtech.com" for RTL8168/8111 and sneaker net ed
> it over to SL 6.4 box applied the new driver.
> New driver must have a problem with the 64 bit interface - or SL 6 X _64 code
> is broken somewhere.

Did you have a chance to identify your device IDs (see above, my note)?

I have a system with the following NIC:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev
02)

The motherboard is GA-MA785GM-US2H.

I use ELRepo's driver from kmod-r8168-8.032.00-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.
The OS is SL 6.4 (64-bit) but this machine has been running SL for at
least 3 years with no apparent network trouble.

Akemi