{"id":64,"date":"2009-09-27T11:33:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T10:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2009-09-27T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T10:33:36","slug":"linux-networking-and-the-intel-atom-d945gclf2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Linux Networking and the Intel Atom D945GCLF2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=text-align:left;><a class=\"wpptopdfenh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noindex,nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64&#038;format=pdf\" title=\"Download PDF\"><img alt=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanced\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\"><\/a><\/div><p>Over the last wee while I have been running this server on the Intel Dual Core Atom D945GCLF2 board, replacing my old via EPIA 9000 motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>Overall the performance and usability have been fantastic. I&#8217;ve installed Centos 5 on the board and carry out updates as they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem I have come across is the network driver. The board has a RealTek 8111c chip on board which is not stable with the stock kernel supplied.<\/p>\n<p>The solution for this is to pull down the latest driver from the realtek web site.<\/p>\n<p>At this present moment this is r8168-8.014.00, installing the driver is extremely simple using the following commands :<\/p>\n<p>Unpack the tarball :<br \/>\n# tar vjxf r8168-8.aaa.bb.tar.bz2<\/p>\n<p>Change to the directory:<br \/>\n# cd r8168-8.aaa.bb<\/p>\n<p>If you are running the target kernel, then you should be able to do :<\/p>\n<p># make clean modules\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (as root or with sudo)<br \/>\n# make install<br \/>\n# depmod -a<br \/>\n# modprobe r8168<\/p>\n<p>You can check whether the driver is loaded by using following commands.<\/p>\n<p># lsmod | grep r8168<br \/>\n# ifconfig -a<\/p>\n<p>The only modification I made was to the modprobe.conf file by ensuring that the alisas for eth0 pointed to the new driver.<\/p>\n<p>All you need is the line<\/p>\n<p>alias eth0 r8168<\/p>\n<p>After that all network activity is extremely stable \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last wee while I have been running this server on the Intel Dual Core Atom D945GCLF2 board, replacing my old via EPIA 9000 motherboard. Overall the performance and usability have been fantastic. I&#8217;ve installed Centos 5 on the board and carry out updates as they happen. The only problem I have come across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}