<div dir="ltr"><div>I have tried my siblings' older laptops, Coincidentally, all of them have Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based LAN cards despite notebooks coming from different manufacturers. So, I am guessing this might be a popular LAN driver. We might as well include that driver with OpenIndiana?</div><div><br></div><div>What might be the instructions to build that driver from source (<a href="https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585">https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585</a>) ?</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Thank you,</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM Robert Mustacchi <<a href="mailto:rm@fingolfin.org">rm@fingolfin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 7/14/25 01:13, Atiq wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> As I connected the Ethernet cable to notebook after booting the gui image (OI-hipster-gui-20250606.usb) I got following messages,<br>
> <br>
> usb_mid1 is /pci@0.0/pci1022.150c@8.3/pci1043.201f@0.3/device@2<br>
> /pci@0.0/pci1022.150c@8.3/pci1043.201f@0.3/device@2 (usb_mid1) online<br>
> usba: no driver found for interface 0 (nodename: interface) of realtek usb 10/100/1000 lan 0000100000<br>
> <br>
> On Linux, I found that it was using following driver<br>
> <br>
> $ ls -l /sys/class/net/enp103s0f3u1/device/driver<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Jul 13 20:20 /sys/class/net/enp103s0f3u1/device/driver -> ../../../../../../../bus/usb/drivers/r8152<br>
> <br>
> $ modinfo r8152<br>
> filename: /lib/modules/6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/r8152.ko.xz<br>
> version: v1.12.13<br>
> license: GPL<br>
> description: Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based USB Ethernet Adapters<br>
> author: Realtek linux nic maintainers <<a href="mailto:nic_swsd@realtek.com" target="_blank">nic_swsd@realtek.com</a>><br>
> <br>
> Official driver seems to be here: <a href="https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585</a><br>
> <br>
> How can I get this driver with the OpenIndiana boot image? Posting here since a solution for illumos kernel will work across all distributions around it.<br>
<br>
We would need to write a driver that is compatible with illumos. There<br>
is not a way to use the existing Linux driver.<br>
<br>
Robert<br>
</blockquote></div>