[oi-dev] [developer] Driver of Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based USB Ethernet Adapters is missing

[Atiq Rahman]

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?

What might be the instructions to build that driver from source (
https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585) ?

Thank you,

Atiq


On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM Robert Mustacchi <rm at fingolfin.org> wrote:

> On 7/14/25 01:13, Atiq wrote:
> > Hi,
> > As I connected the Ethernet cable to notebook after booting the gui
> image (OI-hipster-gui-20250606.usb) I got following messages,
> >
> > usb_mid1 is /pci at 0.0/pci1022.150c at 8.3/pci1043.201f at 0.3/device at 2
> > /pci at 0.0/pci1022.150c at 8.3/pci1043.201f at 0.3/device at 2 (usb_mid1) online
> > usba: no driver found for interface 0 (nodename: interface) of realtek
> usb 10/100/1000 lan 0000100000
> >
> > On Linux, I found that it was using following driver
> >
> > $ ls -l /sys/class/net/enp103s0f3u1/device/driver
> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Jul 13 20:20
> /sys/class/net/enp103s0f3u1/device/driver ->
> ../../../../../../../bus/usb/drivers/r8152
> >
> > $ modinfo r8152
> > filename:
>  /lib/modules/6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/r8152.ko.xz
> > version:        v1.12.13
> > license:        GPL
> > description:    Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based USB Ethernet Adapters
> > author:         Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd at realtek.com>
> >
> > Official driver seems to be here:
> https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585
> >
> > 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.
>
> We would need to write a driver that is compatible with illumos. There
> is not a way to use the existing Linux driver.
>
> Robert
>
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