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authorHunter Sezen <ovariegata@yahoo.com>2016-01-12 07:02:05 +0700
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2016-01-12 21:58:11 -0600
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network/r8168: Added (Driver for Realtek Ethernet controllers).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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+This is the Linux device driver released for RealTek RTL8168B/8111B, RTL8168C/8111C,
+RTL8168CP/8111CP, RTL8168D/8111D, RTL8168DP/8111DP, and RTL8168E/8111E Gigabit
+Ethernet controllers with PCI-Express interface.
+
+To build the module for a kernel that isn't currently running on the system pass
+that kernel's "uname -r" ouput such as: KERNEL=4.4.0" ./r8168.SlackBuild
+
+To use this module blacklist the r8169 driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:
+
+blacklist r8169
+
+This will need to be rebuilt for every new kernel installed.