ozar
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| reply to GILXA1226
Re: Realtek RTL8111C Controller Compatibility
Yeah, for some it's been working all along, for some it only works intermittently, and for some it hasn't been working at all. I'm not at all sure why, though.
Actually, it did work for me on one particular boot, but not ever again after that until I used the new drivers on the Realtek site, and then again today after installing the new kernel.
Thanks for the reply.
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nitzan
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| reply to ozar
I just got it fixed too!.. I tossed the motherboard in the trash and got another brand...
Seriously though, this piece of crap (Gigabyte board with a Realtek NIC) has cost me countless hours of troubleshooting mysterious problems. Anywhere from the NIC committing harakiri in the middle of the day, never to be found again until next reboot - to the motherboard not making nice with the hard disk which results in painful all-out 30 second freezes.
Interestingly enough - all other equipment the same - all problems were resolved by switching to another motherboard (non-Gigabyte, nVidia chipset, and NO REALCRAP NIC). The ironic thing is the new motherboard cost less than half of the original one, yet is absolutely problem free.
I guess these are all driver problems, and Linux doesn't play nice with GB and RT.. but to be honest I don't really care who's fault it is - point is boards with Realtek NICs seem to not work well with Linux. I have learned my lesson and will stay away from those in the future. 
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shdesigns
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| I would not blame realtek, I use them on most of my systems.
I have had problems with some cheap boards, seem they skimped on the MAC layer hw or used real odd interrupt routing.
Most likely it is the gigabyte MB interrupt logic. I have seen others with the same problem.
I have several ASUS MB's that had on-board Realtek NICs or used my RT boards. Never a problem.
I do use Intel boards in my server as it has the best performance and better driver.
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joako
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Are you dualbooting? The issue might simply be the Windows driver, ref: »https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404695
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ozar
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USA | Yeah, I was already aware of that bug.
I don't dual boot, so it doesn't apply to me anyway.
Thanks for the reply, though.
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