This guide is almost 5 years old now and I wanted to make a complete overhaul, because a lot of things has changed since then.

Why do I need this driver anyway Some people asked me, Why do I need this driver anyway Doesnt the Linux Kernel ship it.

As long as the driver isnt Open Sourced, we have to build it on our own.

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The installation methods A lot of things have changed since I written the initial article about how to compile the driver under Ubuntu Debian.

The automatic way NOTE: Thanks to the user Liyu who gave me this hint NOTE2: For this way you need a working internet connection.

You could use WLAN or a USB ethernet card like this one to get a temporary internet connection.

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You could also download every needed single package onto USB from another PC and install them in the right order.

And today Ubuntu and Debian have the driver included in its repository.

You can easily do this by open your etcaptsources.list as root with your editor of choice and add for each line starting with deb non-free or universe at the end.

So for example, if you use Debian a line like: deb jessie main contrib would become to deb jessie main contrib non-free The same for Ubuntu: deb xenial main restricted would become to deb xenial main restricted universe After this you have to do a: sudo apt-get update You can of course use graphical ways to enable non-free or universe.

After you enabled the missing package repository, you will be ready to install the driver.

This can be easily done with the following command: sudo apt-get install r8168-dkms The procedure will take some time, depending on your CPU because the driver will be build for your working Kernel.

After the procedure is finished, you should be able to use your network card instantly.

The manual way Well, the manual way is almost the same as it was before in the initial article.

This is also tested against newer Kernels ( 4.0) which caused a lot of trouble for some people in the past.

Install dependencies: Once more you need a working internet connection for this.

You could also use the Debian or Ubuntu DVD which includes the needed packages.

To install the dependencies just enter the following command: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-(uname -r) 2.

Download the driver: You can download the driver from the official Realtek homepage mirror provided by mtorromeo at GitHub.

This is the direct download link: click me.

Blacklisting the r8169 driver: The r8169 is loaded when the r8168 is not found on your system.

This will give you a network and internet connection, but with the r8169 driver your RTL8168 card will be very unstable.

This means slow download rates, homepages taking hours to load and so on.

This is be done by entering the following command: userlinux: sudo sh -c echo blacklist r8169 etcmodprobe.dblacklist.conf 4.

Untar the archive: After you successfully downloaded the driver, cd into the directory where the driver is downloaded and untar the driver with the following command: userlinux: tar xfvz r8168-8.046.00.tar.gz NOTE: Your tar filename can of course differs if you download a newer version in the future for e.g.

Compiling and installing the driver: Now we have to start compiling the driver.