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Tamás Szelei
Asked: 2011-06-30 15:25:56 +0800 CST

How can I install a driver?

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Although my ethernet card worked, I had very bad latency and speed. I looked up the hardware and I found a driver. Having run its autorun.sh script makes the hardware work correctly. It loads the module by calling modprobe. However, I have to do this after every boot. How can I permanently install this module?

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  1. Best Answer

    Just add the module to /etc/modules to make sure it's autoloaded at boot. Use the following command

    echo r8168 | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

    or edit /etc/modules with your favorite text editor and add r8168 to the bottom.

    After adding the module, the initial ramdisk should be updated with this driver, run:

    sudo update-initramfs -u
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