Just when I am really impressed with Ubuntu, I have run into a problem on two machines, one is running 10.04LTS and the other is on 10.10. Both machines have Realtek Gigabit Ethernet LAN cards built onto the motherboards and use the r8169 driver.
In both cases, the ethernet port is just not active. I spent some time on the forums and it appears to be a well documented problem but there are very few solutions. The strange thing is that the machine that now runs 10.10 used to run 10.04 and eth0 worked fine at 1000Mb/s. After the upgrade ... nothing!
The machine that currently runs 10.04LTS dual boots with Windows 2000 and the NIC works fine under Windows, although only at 100Mb/s.
This is a pain as I am now using USB to ethernet converters and they are s-l-o-w
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