The PCI ID Repository

Name: RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

romieu

2006-06-11 00:26:26

Name: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

Toshiba L300 has here an RTL8102E device

c4p7n1

2008-07-31 22:56:38

Name: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller

There's a RTL8106E on the HP Pavilion 17-e163sg.

chf

2015-08-03 02:23:55

Name: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

I have a Dell Inspiron 15R-5537 laptop with this Ethernet card in it. I was trying to troubleshoot why my switch was only showing 100M Ethernet instead of the 1G (as indicated by lspci), and I came across the vendor's page for this card (http://www.realtek.com/products/productsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=7&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=217), which states that it is actually only a Fast Ethernet card, not a Gigabit card.

anthonymapes3

2017-10-02 04:37:04

Name: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

It was apparently me who mentioned "Gigabit" for the 1st time when entering the "RTL106E" subsystem "103c:1985" of a "17-e163sg" laptop.

However, the "RTL106E" seems to be a 10/100M-only model as well:
http://www.realtek.com/products/productsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=7&Level=5&Conn=4

I confirm the "WIM 2210", subsystem "17c0:1053", has a 10/100M-only "RTL8101E".

There are 2 possibilities:
1) I might have been confused because of the card being handeled by the gigabit driver "r8169", which supports gigabit cards as well. I'm sure that I did not have a gigabit switch attached when testing the "17-e163sg", and of course don't remember the exact text output.
2) There might be gigabit interfaces with this ID being (mis-)identified as "RTL106E" by the driver.

I can't re-test the HP, because it's a customer's laptop.

Option "1)" is MUCH more likely: HP only mentions "fast ethernet" here:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04089420

Please follow anthonymapes3's suggestion.

chf

2017-10-02 07:33:32

"RTL8106E", not "RTL106E", of course…

chf

2017-10-02 07:35:11

Name: RTL8136x/RTL8102x/RTL8105x PCIe Family Fast Ethernet Controller Series

The INF-file for the Windows driver lists numerous devices with hundreds of subsystem vendors/devices. Based on the driver used they can be combined into three distinct groups.

The 8136 group (RTL8136.ndi):
RTL8131
RTL8101E/RTL8101HP

The 8102 group (RTL8102.ndi):
RTL8102E(L)/RTL8103E(L)/RTL8102E-GR/RTL8103T/RTL8103EVL
RTL8401/RTL8401P

The 8105 group (RTL8105.ndi):
RTL8105E/RTL8106E/RTL8106EUS/RTL8107E
RTL8402

All the devices in a group use the same driver for the first member.
Despite being tempted to use 8101 as designator of the first group both the driver name and the Device ID support 8136 as being the primary.
Device 8106 is not the primary in the third group, 8105 is. And the group includes 8105/6/7 as well as 8402.

am321

2018-01-08 01:46:49