Jeff Geerling

Following @dave-online2's instructions I [downloaded the driver](https://www.realtek.com/Download/ToDownload?type=direct&downloadid=4445) and tried installing: ``` # Unzip $ tar -xvf r8126-10.014.01.tar.bz2 # Attempt install $ cd r8126-10.014.01/ $ sudo ./autorun.sh Check old driver and...

``` $ sudo ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full 2500baseT/Full 5000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports...

iperf3 speed tests: ``` $ iperf3 -c 10.0.2.15 Connecting to host 10.0.2.15, port 5201 [ 5] local 10.0.2.206 port 60216 connected to 10.0.2.15 port 5201 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate...

``` $ sudo lspci -vvvv ... 0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8126 (rev 01) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 0123 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV-...

The card is on the site now: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/cards_network/iocrest-5gbps-m2-nic.html

See related issue on the book repo: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops/issues/574 Definitely need to get this updated!

I was excited to give it a try on my M128-28 128-core Ampere Altra Max system, but I was hit by the same error a lot of Threadripper users seem...

@rajdakin - What hardware are you running? I'm assuming the 4070 I have would be able to use acceleration still.

Today I tried running Portal 2 again, had to disable a few cores again (as earlier), but Portal 2 did not crash, it ran just fine, graphically. The controls seemed...

They mentioned in their blog post on [Arm64 support for CrossOver Preview](https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2025/11/6/twist-our-arm64-heres-the-latest-crossover-preview), so I was testing that — but I want to see how it runs on Box64 as well....