After several months of development (and regrettable delays due to work obligations and health issues), 203 packaged builds, 71 Alpha testers, and 4 test iterations, a new beta version of the Realtek RTL81xx driver is finally ready to be released. The Functional/Visible Changes are: Adds support for newer RTL8111E, RTL8111E-VL, and RTL8111F chips (as found on many SandyBridge motherboards), Full support for WakeOnLAN, Full support for WakeOnDemand, Slight performance improvements But the really exciting changes happened under the hood : Massive code refactoring (almost a full rewrite), Merged code with r8168 Linux driver v024, Partial Linux emulation layer You might be asking why those changes are so exciting ... Well, a lot of effort has been invested to make the source more similar to the Linux Realtek driver. The purpose of this is to allow to track changes in the Linux driver more easily, thus shortening the time needed to support new chips. Additionally, with this, I'll...