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linux-backports-modules-3.0.0 package

  1. Bug #839393
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 839393

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Teihoo (teihoo) wrote : Re: Network problem with the driver r8169

This network card problem (with 8111/8168 chipset) is present in Ubuntu distributions since 10.x for me. However the recent kernel version 3.x also crippled the installation of driver from Realtek site, but I found a workaround on Linux Mint forums:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=80757

just replace kernel version with your own, when copying the .ko file.

Hope this bug gets fixed soon - just google for "ubuntu realtek 8168 driver problem" you'll see lots of posts :-)

(as of yesterday, when i did clean 11.10 install, my network card is still detected as 8169, which then works a bit, but usually drops connection speed really soon, and eventually all network traffics stops)