Hi all, just trying out Unraid for the first time on a machine that has two network devices, one using the alx driver and the other using the r8169 driver. All I want to do is get wake-on-lan working, but for some reason the alx driver has that functionality removed, while the r8169 appears to support it, but seemingly goes to sleep along with the rest of the machine. I've heard this is due to the r8169 driver being the open-source variant, and that the r8168 driver is actually from Realtek and doesn't have this problem - so my question is, how do I actually replace the driver?

I've manually installed drivers on linux before, but I don't think any of the changes I make to the filesystem persist after I reboot the machine, and on top of that when trying to compile anything, I get an error from make about not having a modules target in the Unraid kernel (or at least something along those lines). I have seen that in the past there were special releases of Unraid that differed only in that they replaced r8169 with r8168, but I can't find the equivalent for the current release of 6.8.3.

So is a manual replacement of this driver possible, and if so, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks.

i would like to use the vendor driver too instead of the kernel as it is know to be not optimal. Is there a way to compile and install own driver?

 

Running into the same situation, apparently the r8169 driver is fixed in kernel 5.11

i have received the answer from limetech that any driver is responsibility of a vendor and compiling or importing own modules will not be enabled in unraid. i switched for an Intel NIC at the end.