Failure to configure wired connection with Realtek 8111E on board LAN controller.

[David Fletcher]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 00:19 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:

> Right now the system is plugged into my router, where my old system was 
> plugged previously and my laptop is plugged currently into it as well. 
> And the router shows the network present. At least this one good sign 
> here. :-)
> 

When I had a stupid problem like this, it was a port on the router that
had died. Plugging into a different socket got everything working again.

Then, maybe a year later, the entire router died. Good excuse to get the
Linksys one with Linux on it :-)

Dave