Alessio Treglia

r8169 module has a lot of bugs and it doesn’t work well with a large number of Realtek’s adapters, so, a few days ago, I posted a patch for the Realtek r8101 module, which supports kernel 2.6.23 but not the 2.6.24, newest kernel in Ubuntu 8.04 «Hardy Heron».

This howto could be a solution for a large number of ethernet adapters issues.

The first step is downloading the right driver (r8101 or r8168) for the adapter:

• r8168 supports RTL8111B, RTL8168B, RTL8111, RTL8168 and RTL8111C;
• r8102 supports RTL8100E, RTL8101E and RTL8102E-GR.

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This Stephan Hermann’s article shows a simple and useful macro, which gets a Launchpad bug’s id and returns a link to its bugtracker page.

So, I had an idea: why don’t generalize it and make it compatible with other projects bugtrackers?

Ok, let’s start analyzing the code:

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Hi guys, that’s my first post on Planet Ubuntu!

I’m Alessio and this is “Everybody lies“, my personal blog (yes, I’m an House M.D. fan) where you should find any kind of information about me and my projects.

For more information about my activities in Ubuntu, visit my wiki homepage.