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Disowned as I am no longer running any hardware that uses this driver.

Unfortunately there is no longer a way to directly link to this file. You have to get the link from Realtek via email after following the upstream URL. Then manually remove the ${url} from the source line in the PKGBUILD. Feel free to comment if there are any other issues.

Seems the download link is no longer valid. Anyone know where this file might have gone or if it's been replaced by a newer version?

I tried this driver to see if it would alleviate an issue where my NIC is not connecting at 1G speeds, but rather 100M speeds...

lspci -nn for that NIC: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 0a)

I've verified that the switch is providing gigabit speeds to another machine. I've directly attached to the router itself with both cat-5e and cat6 cables. I have a cable tester and have tested the cables. They pass.

I've blacklisted the r8169 driver and verified that ethtool -i eno1 is showing that the r8101 driver is being used.

The machine which is connecting at gigabit speeds, through the same cable run, and the same switch, is running a derivative of Ubuntu on a desktop platform and is using the r8169 driver 2.3LK-NAPI. rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15. Its lspic -nn comes back with slightly different data though. 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)

so... looks like same driver, different chip...

There is another machine (another HP laptop, like mine), which is also having this issue, which has the same chip. This one exhibits the issue both in Windows (the owner uses Windows.), and in Antergos live installer used for testing. Same tests as above apply.

Ideas??

@jsh6789 - thanks very much. i'd tried to fix it myself and got as far as figuring out that the callback function needed to be changed, but didn;t have enough overall understanding of your code to finish it without a few more hours of input. so i appreciate this.

btw, there's a typo in the patch file at line 64:

• struct rtl0101_private tp = (struct rtl8101_private )__opaque;

should be:

• struct rtl8101_private tp = (struct rtl8101_private )__opaque;

cheers

I've added a patch for the build to succeed on the new kernel, but it will be a while before I get the chance to test my hardware. Let me know if it doesn't work.

Ok. The problem is that setup_timer changed to timer_setup as of linux-4.15. I'm still looking into what needs to be fixed since the parameter types also changed. In addition, it appears that init_timer changed as well.

Error on latest kernel update (sorry. can't get it listing properly):

DKMS make.log for r8101-1.032.04 for kernel 4.15.2-1-ARCH (x86_64) Thu Feb 8 19:48:50 UTC 2018 make -C src/ modules make[1]: Entering directory '/var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.032.04/build/src' make -C /usr/lib/modules/4.15.2-1-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/r810/1.032.04/build/src modules make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/4.15.2-1-ARCH/build' CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.032.04/build/src/r8101_n.o /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.032.04/build/src/r8101_n.c: In function ‘rtl8101_request_link_timer’: /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.032.04/build/src/r8101_n.c:9136:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘setup_timer’; did you mean ‘sk_stop_timer’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] setup_timer(timer, rtl8101_link_timer, (unsigned long)dev); ^~~~~~~~~~~ sk_stop_timer cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[3]: [scripts/Makefile.build:317: /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.032.04/buil/src/r8101_n.o] Error 1 make[2]: [Makefile:1508: module/var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.032.04/build/src] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/4.15.2-1-ARCH/build' make[1]: [Makefile:80: modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.032.04/build/src' make: [Makefile:40: modules] Error 2

Error on latest kernel update: DKMS make.log for r8101-1.031.02 for kernel 4.11.2-1-ARCH (x86_64) make -C src/ modules make[1]: Entering directory '/var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src' make -C /usr/lib/modules/4.11.2-1-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src modules make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/4.11.2-1-ARCH/build' CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src/r8101_n.o /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src/r8101_n.c: In function ‘rtl8101_rx_interrupt’: /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src/r8101_n.c:12608:28: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘last_rx’ dev->last_rx = jiffies; ^~ make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:295: /var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src/r8101_n.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [Makefile:1492: _module_/var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/4.11.2-1-ARCH/build' make[1]: *** [Makefile:76: modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/lib/dkms/r8101/1.031.02/build/src' make: *** [Makefile:40: modules] Error 2

@jsh6789 Thanks, works fine now!