Abit AB9 Pro FC6 compatibility

[bjrosen]

Has anyone used FC6 on the Abit AB9 Pro? The card has a new Realtek gigabit Ethernet MAC that's problematic in terms of Linux support. I've looked at the kernel sources for the latest FC6 kernel and it looks like the driver is there but I'd like to hear from someone who has one,

[Djjules]

Originally Posted by bjrosen

Has anyone used FC6 on the Abit AB9 Pro? The card has a new Realtek gigabit Ethernet MAC that's problematic in terms of Linux support. I've looked at the kernel sources for the latest FC6 kernel and it looks like the driver is there but I'd like to hear from someone who has one,

I've got AB9 Pro and it surely was a struggle for me to get those network cards to function.

Retrospectively it wasn't such a big deal to make them work, but at the moment only one of them works as it should. The other instead is working only half-time meaning that it is much much slower than the other. I tested this by pinging the same address with both of the cards and other was working fine and the other was very slow (60ms against 1700ms)

Could someone, please, help me with this. There must be an incorrect parameter or something in the settings but my skills with this are very (read 'noob') limited. Thnx.

Oh, the cards are Realtek 8111B Gigabit PCI-E (integrated) and there are two of 'em.

[bjrosen]

What did you do to get the ethernet ports to function? I've installed FC6 64 on mine and it didn't recognize the Realtek MAC. I then built a 2.6.19.1 kernel but I couldn't get that kernel to boot, it paniced. I then updated the kernel RPM to the latest and tired that, the MACs still weren't recognized. My next step was to install the drivers from the Realtek site. After that FC6 recognized the controllers and I was able to configure them and "bring them up". By bring up I mean that FC6 thinks they are up and the green LED lights on one, an orange LED on the other. However I can't ping anything with either one. Currently I'm using a Dlink PCI ethernet card in the machine.

[Djjules]

Originally Posted by bjrosen

What did you do to get the ethernet ports to function? I've installed FC6 64 on mine and it didn't recognize the Realtek MAC. I then built a 2.6.19.1 kernel but I couldn't get that kernel to boot, it paniced. I then updated the kernel RPM to the latest and tired that, the MACs still weren't recognized. My next step was to install the drivers from the Realtek site. After that FC6 recognized the controllers and I was able to configure them and "bring them up". By bring up I mean that FC6 thinks they are up and the green LED lights on one, an orange LED on the other. However I can't ping anything with either one. Currently I'm using a Dlink PCI ethernet card in the machine.

Sorry for delayed answer...

I got mine working just fine after all.

For clearance:

I had to install the following (dependencies not included):

• kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.x86_64.rpm
• kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.x86_64.rpm
• kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm

Then I unpacked the Realtek driver package and I installed the driver with following commands

cd (the folder where I unpacked the Realtek driver package)
make clean modules
make install
depmod -a
reboot

After this I had this problem:

The other instead is working only half-time meaning that it is much much slower than the other. I tested this by pinging the same address with both of the cards and other was working fine and the other was very slow (60ms against 1700ms)

But I just ignored it. I plugged the box into my network and everything worked out just fine. I dunno what the real issue was/is with it, but it works as it should.

Sorry m8, but not so much help from here I guess. Hope you get yours working.