Network Admin and buggy driver/hardware interaction

[L. Richard Cameron]

Sounds like you've done about as much as anyone could. You  (or someone you 
know) may be able to write a script to automate the procedure, I'm not sure 
when it comes to straight hardware issues. But take heart, wireless/wired 
combos are tricky even at the best of times. I know plenty of folks using 
windows who have to disable, re-enable and do the hokey-pokey to accomplish 
the same task.

>From: "Michael S. Peek" <peek at tiem.utk.edu>
>Reply-To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>To: User Mail List-Ubuntu <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Subject: Network Admin and buggy driver/hardware interaction
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:40:51 -0400
>
>Hello all,
>
>I have a laptop who's wired ethernet has never worked just quite right.
>I love the wireless, but if I have to transfer large files, or back up
>the hard drive, then I want to plug in to get better throughput.  My
>problem is that in order to make this work, this is what I have to do:
>
>1) In network-admin, disable wireless and wired
>2) In a terminal, $ sudo root rmmod r8169; sudo root modprobe r8169
>3) In network-admin, enable wired connection
>4) Profit!
>
>This is because something about my hardware and the r8169 driver not
>getting along.  I have to unload and reload it in order for it to work
>properly (that, or disable wireless, enable wired, and then reboot).  So
>my question is, how can I automate this so that when I either (a)
>activate the wired connection under the connections tab, or (b) select a
>wired-only location, the r8169 driver is automatically unloaded/reloaded?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Michael
>
>P.S.  This is an Acer 9410z w/ a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>RTL8111/8168B ethernet controller, and the 2.6.20-16-generic kernel.
>
>
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