r8101 in F12

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 00:06 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> >03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
> 
> Looks like there is no support for 8101 in 2.6.31 kernels, 

How do you mean? Can you provide more details?

> others have
> had issues compiling as well:

> error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ...

The module is obviously buildable in the F12 kernel source, or else it
wouldn't exist...there may be a patch in the F12 kernel package to fix
this?

> I might be skipping F12 on this HP laptop, the external USB ports don't
> work and the rpm fusion wl akmod doesn’t work either:(

external USB ports don't work on an HP sounds like bug 524808 , which
we're currently evaluating as a blocker:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524808

if I were a betting man I'd bet you have 3 or 4GB of RAM (or more) and
lots of "nommu_map_single: overflow..." messages in your kernel logs.
Workaround: boot with 'iommu=soft' kernel parameter.

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