Wired USB Ethernet Connection disconnecting sporadicly

first, I’m not a Linux Pro, so please forgive me if I write any nonsence 🙂 So I have quite an unusual constellation. I’m running a Ubuntu 14.04 Virtual Machine on my Mac Pro using VMWare Fusion 6. Because I have to forward ports (for an Owncloud Installation) for a specific and unchanging MAC Adress … Read more

Access wired network camera(s) through a switch without disconnecting from wireless internet

Here is an image of the network I’m setting up: This network sort of works when “Computer” is running OS X; I can access “Network camera” (an Axis M1011) at its default address 192.168.0.90 and set a new IP address (e.g. 10.0.0.12) through the camera’s browser interface only when Wi-Fi is turned off. I can … Read more

In Wired Connection settings save option is getting grayed out

Each time I switch to manual configuration, of wired connection in Ubuntu 12.10, the save button gets grayed out. As soon as I start setting it in Manually, it gets grayed out.Please help ! One more thing, system continuously displays a message at the top-right corner of the screen, saying: Wired Network- Not connected Answer … Read more

RTL8111/8168B Rev 06 Ethernet controller not working with AMD64 Kernels > 2.6

I’m also having trouble with the RTL8111 Ethernet controller. It’s not working at all on Ubuntu x64. This is my card: $ lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:e000] Kernel driver … Read more