RTL8101E/RTL8102E not working with ubuntu 14.04. HP G61

I have a Dell Inspiron 3521 Laptop. After update from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04, I had the same problem with my eth0 network card (an RTL8101E/RTL8102E). Using lspic (list PCI devices) to show the devices in the machine, with:

lspci -nn

06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)

(It was not present at ifconfig command)

I download the driver from Realtek to my Desktop folder from: driver's page

Then I untar the file and open the path to a terminal and install it with:

$ cd Desktop   
$ tar xvvf r8101-1.025.00.tar.bz2    
$ cd r8101-1.025.00/src     
$ make clean modules    
$ sudo make install   
$ sudo depmod -a
$ sudo modprobe r8101
$ lsmod |grep r8101
r8101                 153264  0 
$ /sbin/ifconfig -a    
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 74:86:7a:5d:c6:01  
          inet addr:192.168.1.4  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::7686:7aff:fe5d:c601/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:368426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:258622 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:347809708 (347.8 MB)  TX bytes:143626976 (143.6 MB)
          Interrupt:47 Base address:0x4000

For me it worked ....

Edited to remove superfluous commands that would cause no action in example, and to add sudo usage where appropriate.

RTL8101E/RTL8102E not working with ubuntu 14.04. HP G61

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