RTL8111 Wired network connection setup?

What version of Debian were you able to get the ethernet to work? If it is Jessie, it isn't hard to install Linuxcnc on it using Preempt-Rt and Buildbot

Todd wrote:

What version of Debian were you able to get the ethernet to work? If it is Jessie, it isn't hard to install Linuxcnc on it using Preempt-Rt and Buildbot

I tried: "debian-live-8.6.0-i386-xfce-desktop" I'm happy to try some alternatives distros if necessary. Is XCFE preferred for LinuxCNC? Can you explain step-by-step how to install LinuxCNC or provide a link?

The first thing you need to do is install a Preempt-RT patched kernel (or apply the patch yourself). The last time I installed Jessie, a Preempt-RT kernel was available to install pre-compiled from Debian Backports using Synaptic. It appears to no longer be available there.

I just installed a Preemt-RT patched Kernal from the Debian archive site add the repository.
deb snapshot-sibelius.debian.org/archive/debian/20160810T050046Z/ jessie-backports main
Then close synaptic and at a command prompt typeThis will let you use Synaptic to install from the old snapshot archives.
Then reopen Synaptic and install
linux-headers-rt-686-pae
after that is installed install
linux-image-rt-6860-pae.
Then reboot into the new kernel, and follow the instructions for installing Linuxcnc from buildbot for the preempt-rt.

Thanks! I'm new to Linux so I don't know all the commands to comfortably make this happen. Would these instructions work?: forum.linuxcnc.org/forum/9-installing-li...ssie-and-linuxcnc2-7

Yes except for the real time kernel installation, because they are not currently available in jessie-backports. For some reason the real time patched kernels seem to appear and disappear every few months. I've heard some speculate it is because of pending version upgrades, but I don't understand why the old has to be removed so long before the new is released; (They could easily overlap for a period of time.)