Hew Adam,
Looks like there is no support for 8101 in 2.6.31 kernels,
How do you mean? Can you provide more details?
I just searched the web and found that a few Ubuntu users w/ 2.6.31 kernels could not build realteks source.
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?
Hrm, how do I look further into this?
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.
Heh, you should bet more often, it's an HP DV6-1030ca w/ 4gig of ram. I should of searched bz given I also saw that "Broken Bios" message and chuckled...
I am just putting F11 back on it now (I need it tomorrow all day...) but I left empty space so I can slap an F12 install on it next week.
Hopefully I figure out how to get the nic working, that makes setting it up rather hard:)
Thanks! jlc