Asus A6TC
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Problem with gigabit realtek network card
Ubuntu 8.04 uses with default generic kernel driver r8169, witch is buggy for this network card. Specialy, when there is an upload traffic, with combination with nvidia graphic card whole system randomly freezes, and you are not even able to switch to console. Instead of this buggy driver, you can use driver r8168 with patch for this notebook. It is an obsolete solution, but it is working and system is stable. In next few steps you can install this modul in generic kernel. You have download source code for driver r8168-8.006.00.tar.bz2 and patch r8168-8.005.00.hardy.diff.txt.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install build-essential
tar -xjvf r8168-8.006.00.tar.bz2
cd r8168-8.006.00/src
patch < r8168-8.005.00.hardy.diff.txt
cd ..
make clean
make modules
sudo make install
depmod -a
mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r` `uname -r`
sudo sh -c 'echo "blacklist r8169" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-network'
sudo sh -c 'echo "blacklist r8169" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist'
sudo sh -c 'echo "r8168" >> /etc/modules'
rmmod r8169
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
sudo reboot
root@roleta:/# lsmod | grep r81
r8168 34704 0
root@roleta:/#