FYI / For The Record:
The
25:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
works automatigally under Ubuntu 13.04 (tested with 64-bit).
Relevant messages from dmesg:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep -i eth | grep -vi ipv6 | grep -vi bluetooth
[ 5.937789] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[ 5.938277] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: RTL8168e/8111e at 0xffffc9000067e000, 2c:41:38:09:9c:bc, XID 0c200000 IRQ 45
[ 5.938340] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
[ 25.536183] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: link down
[ 25.536197] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: link down
[ 27.726757] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: link up
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
I get linespeed on my 300/300 Mbps Internet connection:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ wget -4 http://ftp.belnet.be/ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso -O /dev/null
--2013-04-19 17:53:43-- http://ftp.belnet.be/ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso
Resolving ftp.belnet.be (ftp.belnet.be)... 193.190.67.98
Connecting to ftp.belnet.be (ftp.belnet.be)|193.190.67.98|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 726970368 (693M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’
10% [===> ] 76,738,837 30.3MB/s
47% [=================> ] 346,957,357 35.1MB/s eta 13s
100%[======================================>] 726,970,368 37.9MB/s in 22s
2013-04-19 17:54:05 (31.0 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [726970368/726970368]
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
With 12.10 the GigE interface did not work, and I got a lot of ugly info in dmesg.
EDIT:
Code:
sander@hapee:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:25:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 06
serial: 2c:41:38:09:9c:bc
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw ip=192.168.0.100 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:45 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d4404000-d4404fff memory:d4400000-d4403fff
sander@hapee:~$
and:
Code:
sander@hapee:~$ lsmod | grep r8
r8169 67446 0
sander@hapee:~$