tuxbyte, How To get your Realtek RTL8111/RTL8168 working (updated guide) (with some small editorial corrections to fix verb tense, etc.) The good side is that if any kernel updates happen on your machine, the driver will be rebuilt against the new kernel automatically after the update because of the use of dkms. The procedure will take some time depending on your CPU, because the driver will be built for your working kernel. This can be easily done with the following command: sudo apt-get install r8168-dkms The combined knowledge of the internet came to the rescue and I found an updated-as of 2016-guide to installing the r8168 driver.Įverything was humming along for about two weeks, and then poof, that machine stopped seeing the network again.īack to the internet, and that same guide, but this time I noticed a comment I hadn’t before, in the “automatic” way of installing the driver ( emphasis added):Īfter you enable the missing package repository, you will be ready to install Digging in a little, I discovered that the networking on the newer motherboard used the Realtek 8111E chip, which needs the r8168 kernel driver… and that the r816 9 driver that Ubuntu uses by default will not work at all. TL DR: Install the r8168-dkms package immediately once you get your machine on the network.Īfter upgrading my Ubuntu box to a “new” motherboard and CPU-one that’s only 5 years old, instead of 10 years old-I found that it stopped seeing the network.
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