i am only using Fossapup 64 9.5 now, this saga/drama is about 4-5 years, it worked on some puppy distros i cant for the life of me remember what worked what didnt,
i tried loading different modules/drivers and using, my actuall one does not apear to be listed,my adaptor is RealTek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit
just recently read . link
https://unixblogger.wordpress.com/2016/ ... ted-guide/
As far as I can see this, the RTL8111/RTL8168 is not Open Source and this would be of course the reason why the driver isn’t included into the Linux Kernel. As long as the driver isn’t Open Sourced, we have to build it on our own.