Comment 4 for bug 573259

I have the r8168B and it is unusable in 10.04 32bit LTS. This was a new HP desktop and has Windows 7 which works fine. I installed Ubuntu as a dual boot and the network card didn't work. One time in probably 50 reboots it did work in Ubuntu. Warm booting from windows or cold booting have not helped me at all.

After some research what I have found is for some reason Ubuntu installs the wrong driver -> r8169B. I was able to download and compile the new driver just find. The problem is I'm unsure how to install and test to see if it will fix this. I added "blacklist r8169" to /etc/modules.d/blacklist.conf, black, blacklist-local.conf and no matter what I do Ubuntu insist on loading the driver. I even moved the r8169.ko and yet it still gets loaded.

I can manually modprobe r8168 and it installs but doesn't associate with the card. The purpose of this post is to let everyone know the problem looks like the wrong driver and hopefully someone can respond with what I'm doing wrong here to install it.

Here is where I found the driver and some non 10.04 instructions:

http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Installation_of_r8168_network_driver