Having Problems with Ubuntu 10 network drivers.

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I am having Problems with Ubuntu version 10 network drivers. The top download speed I get from any website is close to 100 kilobytes per second. I've tried using Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit and Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. Same problem. Tried using Firefox and Opera also. My Windows 7 gives me download speeds over 1 megabyte per second regularly with the same hardware.

My motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3. Right now I am using Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. Looking for possible solutions.
 
It can be realtek hardware problem with linux most likely. Trying Ubuntu 11.10 maybe? I have Realtek hardware and is stable.
 
Cromewell said:
There's lots of reports of realtek driver problems. Kernel driver r8169 seems to be broken, try 8168 (available from http://www.realtek.com/downloads/do...5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2 version listed on that page is 8.028.00)
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I will try your suggestion Cromewell.

Ubuntu version 11 is not an option for me. Ubuntu version 11 is awful in my opinion. I really do not like that operating system after trying it. It runs like garbage and I dislike the changed graphic user interface.
 
I downloaded the driver but I cannot get it installed. Anyone know how to install a network driver using Ubuntu 10.10 that is on my hard drive?
 
There should be an autorun.sh with the driver, allow execute and run it (sudo ./autorun.sh, assuming you aren't running as root already ;))
 
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I found this fix for my network interface card on another forum that has seemed to work:



1) Download the official Realtek version 8.028.00 driver:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...etDown=false#2

2) Open Terminal and type su then type your password

3) Remove the r8169 module
type-> rmmod r8169
then type-> mv /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko ~/r8169.ko.backup
( the ` is a backtick, it is not an apostrophe or single quote )

4) Build the new r8168 module for the kernel
type -> bzip2 -d r8168-8.009.00.tar.bz2
then type -> tar -xf r8168-8.009.00.tar
then type -> cd r8168-8.009.00
then type -> make clean modules
then type -> make install

5) Rebuild the kernel module dependencies
type -> depmod -a
then type -> insmod ./src/r8168.ko

6) Remove the r8169 module from initrd
type -> mv /initrd.img ~/initrd.img.backup
then type -> mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r` `uname -r`

7) Add r8168 module to /etc/modules
then type -> echo "r8168" >> /etc/modules

Reboot, You are done!

I now regularly get 80 to 160 kilobyte per second download speeds. Hopefully some better Linux drivers for my network interface card come out in the near future.
 
I just dumped Ubuntu version 10 for Linux Mint Version 11 32-bit. So far I like Linux Mint more. Best of all they have not ruined Linux Mint like they have Ubuntu in my opinion.

I had to re-install the network interface card drivers still. The above instructions worked. My download speeds are at 50 to 160 kilobytes per second. Linux just does not run well on my present motherboard it seems.
 
It sounds like it is still loading the original driver. You should get the same speed from either OS. Try blacklisting it.

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
then add
"blacklist r8169"
to the file and save it.
 
I opened my device manager and this is the driver presently installed:

RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard)
 
Don't know what to tell you :(. I've heard lots of people with this same problem, blacklisting and loading 8168 fixed it for them but yuor hardware might be more tempermental.
 
My experience with Linux Operating Systems is the drivers usually catch up in about a year or 18 months after the hardware is released. With Linux Mint I do not mind doing updates because future releases seem to make the operating system better.
 
Well, I deleted the Ethernet driver and now I cannot reinstall the Ethernet drivers that I have on my hard drive. So now I have no network interface card drivers and cannot obviously get on the Internet at all with Linux Mint. This is very frustrating. I am a newbie when it comes to reinstalling drivers for Linux.
 
Well consider this issue resolved. I wiped all my hard drives of Linux and will try it again in the future when drivers are updated for my hardware. Hopefully within one year they will have updates available.

My solution to anything bad that happens to my Windows 7 now is to re-clone the data from a master hard drive.
 
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