On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Larry Linder
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> r8168 driver works with SL5.8.  Installing new kernel solved the problem.
> r8169 driver is used with Fedora 19.

>> > On Friday 09 August 2013 12:44 pm, you wrote:

>> > > 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
>> >
>> > Tried the driver from elrepo.X86.64 - did not work -

>> Larry Linder

Could you clarify one thing for me? You tried kmod-r8168 from ELRepo,
not kmod-r8169. Is this correct? Your device ID pairing identifies
r8168 as the driver to use. Also, did you remove the existing module
from the running kernel and then modprobe the one from ELRepo to
ensure that you are using the latter one? This needs to be done
manually. Installing the kmod package will not load the module.

Thanks,

Akemi