Comment 19 for bug 156496

Yes. The only reason I keep the issue open is that anyone (like me) wanting
to use uBuntu could be negatively impressed with such poor implementation.
The device should be completely controlled by the OS.

Marvin Budd

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Martin Zaun <email address hidden> wrote:

> Confirmed, this problem still exists in the 10.04 release.
>
> This is a nasty issue, which took me a day to find out and work around.
> Quite unexpected that a Windows driver setting would affect operability
> under Linux.
>
> Unfortunately, this bug looks like not to get any attention of the
> ubuntu-kernel-team :(
>
> --
> Realtek 8139 ethernet interface fails in Ubuntu (and several other Linux
> distros) after changes made to interface by Windows Update
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156496
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