Use both r8168 and r8169 realtek nic

[a777]

How is it possible to use both r8168 and r8168 nic drivers
I have both cards on motherboard (one pci and another pcie).

when installing one driver instruction suggest to remove another...

this is (http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1373957) what I have found, without solution

[chili555]

Possible is the operative word here, I am not at all certain this will work. This is just my best shot. First, amend /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to specify what driver goes with what card by MAC address. I hope you know which is which; you may need to remove one and boot up to find out. It might go something like:
# PCI device 0x8086:0x109a (r8168)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="r8168", ATTR{address}=="00:xx:yy:e6:cb:01", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x109a (r8169)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="r8169", ATTR{address}=="00:xx:yy:e6:cb:02", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"The highlighted part represents the pci.id from lspci -vv; however, it's commented out, so it may not matter.

Then add two conf files:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/r8168.confAdd the following:
alias eth0 r8168And, obviously, a similar file for eth1 and r8169.

I hope it works, it's my best try.

[rramesh]

I know this has been a while. But, does this work?

Ramesh