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by **jazz.h** on Tue May 29, 2012 3:26 am

Hi Albert!
My lan card was RTL8168 but the driver was RTL8169, I fixed the problem in Mint 12 per this instructions -> http://unixblogger.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/the-pain-of-an-realtek-rtl8111rtl8168-ethernet-card/

Can you confirm that my problem won't exist upon booting Mint 13?

by **AlbertP** on Tue May 29, 2012 10:33 am

I have been told that the r8169 driver is fixed in Linux 3.2 and now works well when connecting to gigabit ethernet.

by **jazz.h** on Wed May 30, 2012 3:39 am

Sounds promising... thanks.

by **Sndk** on Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:51 am

AlbertP wrote:Linux 3.2 solved most of the Realtek 8111/8168 issues - in Mint 13 you may not need r8168 anymore.

on Mint 13 x64 I still have this issue, had to follow a tuto and to compile the 8168.ko file to make it works

so the bug is still present

Realtek - cuts in and out