FYI: RTL8111/8168 works under 13.04 (problems with 12.10)

[rtalcott]

FWIW I am doing an install using 13.04 and I now have wired Ethernet for the first time with 13.04....I have no clue why I had problems before but it appears to be working properly now.

[Blodofferion]

I have Realtek 8111F which never worked under Ubuntu 12.10, so I always had to manually install r8168 driver from the Realtek website. After updating from 12.10 to 13.04 I get no wired connection and the drivers from Realtek won't install either (I get lots of errors). What should I do? At some point I remember unistalling r8189 on Ubuntu 12.10 if that matters.

[quantumfoam]

Hi,

I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 64bit Server on a Gigabyte H61N-D2V used as NAS, the onboard network adapter is a

Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

After installation out of the box the adapter was named 'p4p1' which confuses the networking scripts that expect the interface to be named 'eth*'.

I tried to install the r8168 driver from http://code.google.com/p/r8168/ after stumbling upon http://unixblogger.wordpress.com/201...ethernet-card/, but you only get it to compile after removing the '__devinit's in src/r8168_n.c.

Anyway, after googling around I found out that the r8169 diver actually works, adding '"biosdevname=0' to the kernel options in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="biosdevname=0"

fixed the problem and after a reboot the device was named eth0 and is working.

So if

ifconfig -a

shows something like 'p4p1' you may want to try this.

[cariboo]

Hi,

I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 64bit Server on a Gigabyte H61N-D2V used as NAS, the onboard network adapter is a

Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

After installation out of the box the adapter was named 'p4p1' which confuses the networking scripts that expect the interface to be named 'eth*'.

I tried to install the r8168 driver from http://code.google.com/p/r8168/ after stumbling upon http://unixblogger.wordpress.com/201...ethernet-card/, but you only get it to compile after removing the '__devinit's in src/r8168_n.c.

Anyway, after googling around I found out that the r8169 diver actually works, adding '"biosdevname=0' to the kernel options in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="biosdevname=0"

fixed the problem and after a reboot the device was named eth0 and is working.

So if

ifconfig -a

shows something like 'p4p1' you may want to try this.

Does this fix also work in Saucy?