How to build LAN drivers with no internet access

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Dotan,
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:32:13PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I need to build the LAN drivers for an ASUS P8H61 MLX motherboard with
>> no internet access on Kubuntu 12.04. The driver is available here:
>> http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2
>
> These NICs should be well supported in recent kernels.

On a stock install of Kubuntu 12.04 (and previous versions that I
tried, and openSuse 12.1) the kernel tries to use the r8169 driver.
That is obviously wrong!


> Make sure that you have
> the firmware-realtek package installed.

Doesn't seem to be available:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firmware-realtek


> If the firmware for your NIC is
> missing from firmware-realtek (rtl8402-1.fw and rtl8411-1.fw currently) get it
> from
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtl_nic;h=433ba2c0164f9809221d969d3d60e605575790fc;hb=HEAD,
> and copy to /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/.
>

Thank you. I am reinstalling the OS after some failed tinkering, I
will try that.


> Hope this helps.
>

I hope so too!


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