Scrap that! :) A quick lshw revealed that the Realtek NIC was UNCLAIMED. I hadn't un-blacklisted r8169...
Followed through by doing that, modprobe r8169, depmod and mkinitramfs. After the boot everything works on 2.6.27 & r8169.ko, thankyouverymuch! Marking as "fix released". Thanks for making the switch! -- RTL8111/8168B not working on 2.6.26 64-bit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259534 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs