@jehojakim:
Back to the very beginning:
- Your Ethernet controller is a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
- The Kernel driver is the r8169 (Leap 15.0 default for these cards).
- It has been suggested that, you should change to the “r8168” driver.
And that's where a couple of points came up.
AFAICS, the current Leap 15.0 r8168 driver on Packman has the following package properties:
- Package Name: r8168-kmp-default
- Version: 8.045.08_k4.12.14_lp150.12.45-lp150.4.14
The current Leap 15.0 Kernel version is 4.12.14-lp150.12.45 — if I'm reading the Packman version correctly, the current r8168 Driver should work with “4.12.14” Kernels back to “lp150.4.14” and up to “lp150.12.45” …
BTW, you'll have to also install the “r8168-blacklist-r8169” package …
A DuckDuckGo search for r8168 drivers revealed that, there are various problems occurring with Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 hardware and the current Linux Kernel r8169 driver.
Currently I'm lucky but, I don't know for how long:
Code:
# ethtool -i eth0
driver: r8169
version: 2.3LK-NAPI
firmware-version: rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no
#
Maybe it's time that I purchase a new Motherboard – the current one is labelled “Windows 7 ready” …
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