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Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) driver disk for Realtek RTL8111B/RTL8168B/RTL8111/RTL8168/RTL8111C Thu, Sep 13. 2007

Had to install SLED 10 on recent ASUS laptop with this ethernet board. Standard SLED 10 kernel does not provide a driver; basically you have to
  1. Download driver package from Realtek website
  2. Build the driver for the default distribution and, optionally, for SMP
  3. Create a driver disk for the default distribution, by following these instructions at Novell website
  4. During installation process load the driver disk, then load module.
  5. The installer won't copy the module to target system, but anyway the target system kernel may be different from installation one. You need to setup some RPMs or an update.tar.gz file with modules for all kernel versions you need to support.

Module name is r8168

Here you can find a tarball of the driver disk. Just unpack to a filesystem accessible during the installation process. This driver disk supports r8168 for the following kernels:

  • 2.6.16.21-0.8-default
  • 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
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