[mike_sierra]

Hello Cameleon,

thanks for your answer !

I could not reply before due to working on customer side. This weekend the nic stopped also working on XP. Same situation.. no network adapter known also from XP.

In different forums i could read, that this is a claimed situation from several persons using this brand new realtec. The situation is always the same. Sometimes the network adapter is recogniced from the operating system after bootup and sometimes not.
I asume this new realtec is not really build and tested for the older XP and to new for most of the linux distributions.

I got sad of this and bought an explicite network card from Netgear. Now anything is running fine on XP and on Suse.