Okay.
Don't tell me that I don't give a try. Here is my modification to the blog above.
The following cards are supported by linux, or at least there is a driver called "official realtek gigabit driver". (Actualy I could not find any original Realtek download for this driver.)
The chips are: RTL8169, RTL8169S/8110S, RTL8169S/8110S, RTL8169SB/8110SB, RTL8169SC/8110SC, RTL8168B/8111B, RTL8101E
You can download the driver from some mirror sites. The name is: r1000_v1.04.tgz
For kernel 2.6.18 you have to patch both the kernel and the driver.
I copyed the src/r1000* to the drivers/net/ folder of my kernel, and applied the patch you can see below.
Applying the patch means: patch -p0 < r1000_kb.diff, in the kernel source root.
Now you can config (or menuconfig) to compile the gigabit card driver.
Note#1: I do not say it will work for you
Note#2: The tgz contains dos format files, so the patch will fail. First you have to convert it to unix format. 'nano -w drivers/net/r1000_n.c' Ctrl-O Alt-D whould do it.
Note#3: I could not test the functionality of the card or the driver. So it may fail. I was able to use it at 10Mbps, but thats all.
Note#4: The original patch is by paolo. See http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg21749.html
Regard,
Balázs Kelemen
http://www.sdkmi.hu/dev/
The patch:
--- drivers/net/Kconfig 2006-09-06 22:26:23.000000000 +0200
+++ drivers/net/Kconfig 2006-09-06 22:24:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -2002,6 +2002,63 @@
If in doubt, say Y.
+config R1000
+ tristate "Realtek support for 8169S/SB/SC 8168B 8101E"
+ depends on PCI
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here if you have a Realtek LAN chip of the family below.
+
+ E.g. the 810x may be identified as 'Unknow device 8136' as
+ of 2.6.18-rc6, with PCI_ID=10ec:8136, on recent (as of Aug 2006)
+ Toshiba laptops.
+
+ Also, this r1000 may be a better (it's newer at least) choice
+ for RTL8169 as well than r8169 above.
+
+ To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called r1000. This is recommended.
+
+ == Most relevant excerpt from original README ==
+ Chips supported:
+ 1. RTL8169S/SB/SC (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI interface)
+ 2. RTL8168B (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)
+ 3. RTL8101E (Fast Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)
+
+ Advanced feature:
+
+ - Supports Jumbo Frame
+ - Hardware Tx/Rx flow control
+
+ Force the link status when insert the driver.
+ If the user is in the path ~/r1000, the link status can be
+ forced to one of the 5 modes as following command.
+
+ #insmod ./src/r1000.ko speed=SPEED_MODE duplex=DUPLEX_MODE
+ autoneg=NWAY_OPTION
+
+ where
+ SPEED_MODE = 1000 for 1000Mbps
+ = 100 for 100Mbps
+ = 10 for 10Mbps
+ DUPLEX_MODE = 0 for half-duplex
+ = 1 for full-duplex
+ NWAY_OPTION = 0 for auto-negotiation off
+ = 1 for auto-negotiation on
+
+ Force the link status by using ethtool:
+
+ #ethtool -s eth? speed SPEED_MODE duplex DUPLEX_MODE
+ autoneg NWAY_OPTION
+
+ where
+ SPEED_MODE = 1000 for 1000Mbps
+ = 100 for 100Mbps
+ = 10 for 10Mbps
+ DUPLEX_MODE = half for half-duplex
+ = full for full-duplex
+ NWAY_OPTION = off for auto-negotiation off
+ = on for auto-negotiation on
+
config SIS190
tristate "SiS190/SiS191 gigabit ethernet support"
depends on PCI
--- drivers/net/Makefile 2006-09-06 22:28:38.000000000
+0200
+++ drivers/net/Makefile 2006-09-06 22:29:18.000000000
+0200
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_3C515) += 3c515.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EEXPRESS) += eexpress.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO) += eepro.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_R1000) += r1000.o
+
+r1000-objs := r1000_n.o r1000_ioctl.o
+
obj-$(CONFIG_8139CP) += 8139cp.o
obj-$(CONFIG_8139TOO) += 8139too.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ZNET) += znet.o
--- ../a/drivers/net/r1000_n.c 2006-10-10 02:44:42.192074500 +0200
+++ drivers/net/r1000_n.c 2006-10-10 01:18:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -48,9 +48,12 @@
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (pci, r1000_pci_tbl);
MODULE_AUTHOR ("Realtek");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION ("Linux device driver for Realtek Ethernet Controllers");
-MODULE_PARM (speed, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(MAX_UNITS) "i");
-MODULE_PARM (duplex, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(MAX_UNITS) "i");
-MODULE_PARM (autoneg, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(MAX_UNITS) "i");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC (speed, "Speed mode: [10,100,1000] Mbps");
+module_param_array (speed, int, NULL, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC (duplex, "Duplex mode: 0=half, 1=full");
+module_param_array (duplex, int, NULL, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC (autoneg, "Nway option: [0,1]=auto-negotiation [off,on]");
+module_param_array (autoneg, int, NULL, 0444);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
--- ../a/include/linux/pci_ids.h 2006-10-10 02:44:42.196074750 +0200
+++ include/linux/pci_ids.h 2006-10-10 01:19:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -1227,7 +1227,11 @@
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTERG_5050 0x5050
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK 0x10ec
-#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8139 0x8139
+#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8139 0x8139
+#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8167 0x8167
+#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8168 0x8168
+#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8169 0x8169
+
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_XILINX 0x10ee
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_RME_DIGI96 0x3fc0