Comment 60 for bug 347711

This is getting worse.. Now with Natty 11.04 I can not even get it to work by rebooting to Windows, disable and enable the NIC again and then reboot to Ubuntu (like with 10.10) to have a working NIC. Driver with Fedora 10 or 11 was much more stable.
lspci:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
uname -a
Linux donderweer 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 modinfo r8169
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
version: 2.3LK-NAPI
license: GPL
description: RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver
author: Realtek and the Linux r8169 crew <email address hidden>
srcversion: B5846A288645E4180E09C87
alias: pci:v00000001d00008168sv*sd00002410bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001737d00001032sv*sd00000024bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000016ECd00000116sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001259d0000C107sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001186d00004300sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008169sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008168sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008167sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008136sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008129sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.38-8-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 686
parm: use_dac:Enable PCI DAC. Unsafe on 32 bit PCI slot. (int)
parm: debug:Debug verbosity level (0=none, ..., 16=all) (int)
See
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-819917.html?sid=159bc8f7f8599eec774e32999aba9575
for the Realtek option I am about to try