Comment 37 for bug 839393

I am also experiencing the same slowness issue with my new installation of Ubuntu 11.10 with the latest version of all packages. I use GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2HB3 which has this Realtek 8111e chipset. I was thinking that the grade quality of my cable was not good enough for the 1GB/s connection, but I now realize this is not the case. I also experience a disconnection every few minutes, and transfer is very slow.

$ lspci | grep Ethernet
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
mcs7830 13813 0
usbnet 26212 1 mcs7830
bnep 18436 2
rfcomm 47946 0
bluetooth 166112 10 bnep,rfcomm
parport_pc 36962 0
ppdev 17113 0
binfmt_misc 17540 1
(...)
mxm_wmi 12979 0
wmi 19256 1 mxm_wmi
snd 68266 14 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
i915 567092 3
drm_kms_helper 42558 1 i915
drm 236290 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13423 1 i915
video 19412 1 i915
serio_raw 13166 0
soundcore 12680 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
mei 41480 0
lp 17799 0
parport 46562 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
hid_apple 13375 0
usbhid 47198 0
hid 95463 2 hid_apple,usbhid
xhci_hcd 82820 0
r8169 52788 0

is there a new PPS that I can simply install/use to get the latest driver, as I understand that there is afix, although it is not provided with the latest patches from Ubuntu ?

Thanks :-)