Ubuntu
r8169 package

  1. Bug #839393
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 839393

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GT (gauravtaneja) wrote : Re: Network problem with the driver r8169

I had this issue, my network was extremely slow on Ubuntu and would time out very soon. After the proposed fix of installing the ppa followed by the backport package, I cannot restart the OS even in recovery mode.
Recalling from memory, it complains about VFS sync for the kernel...