is there any clean way to retrofit the RealTek re(4) gig ether driver into a 4.11 system? i have a system that's been running just fine for years and would prefer to keep it that way. however, i would like to use the gig-e card that i've come into as a second ethernet spigot, hence the query. yes, i could buy a new card, and will if that's the easy way out, but a quick look at the local Microcenter today was unsettling. i took the list of supported gig-e cards from the 4.11 "Hardware List", but several of the cards listed (yes, the same model numbers) now have a RealTek 8169 firmly attached to the card. in fact, i could only find one which was not a RealTek and that was an unsupported Marvel chip. this was across at least 8 different vendors. final score: RealTek 8, Marvel 1, Other 0. there seems to be a couple of troubling trends here. -mo