Comment 26 for bug 141343

I was finally able to compile the driver! Thanks for the patch! The r8168 works much, much better than the r8169. My computer now reliably boots up without freezing at the "root file system" stage. Before, the system would stop sometimes (more often than not) at the reading root file system stage. I am surprised that this bug has not been solved yet since realtek hardware seems to be very prevalent these days. My machine is only one month old. It is an HP desktop.

Again, thanks to everyone for their help.