[ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

[Rowan Berkeley]

Hi Mark,

Here we are. I can see what I did wrong: I screwed up r8169, which is 
the Ethernet driver, thinking it was maybe a rival wireless driver. 
Definitely my bad.

uname -a
linuc rowan-Compaq 3.5.0-23-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP [date & time]

sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: b4:b5:2f:38:ea:21
size: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master Cap_list ethernet 
physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 
driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex-full firmware-rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw 
ip=192.168.1.66 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:41 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:7f004000-7f004fff memory 
7f000000-7f003fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Ralink Corp.
vendor: Ralink Corp.
Physical id: 0
bus info: pci at 0000.04.00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:9110000-9011ffff