Hi Francois!

Sorry, returning to this issue took me longer than anticipated before I could 
return to the issue.

Hardly: the r8169 driver has been modified by ~40 patches from 2.6.18 to
now.

There is an ugly hack^W^W quick backport for 2.6.18 at:
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/backport/r8169/20070418-00

It compiles but I do not know if it works and I strongly suggest to use
a more recent kernel package anyway.

Unfortunately the driver that comes with 2.6.18 doesn't appear to support 
mii-tool. I get this message:

Mars:~ # mii-tool -w eth2
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth2' failed: Operation not supported

Next I'll be looking at the provided backport. Also, I'll be confronted with 
SuSE 10.2 and the RTL8111B at work next week.

I'll keep you updated.

Peter