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September 19, 2011
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P on Linux
The Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P motherboard is mostly supported on Linux, but there is one caveat: the default Ethernet driver included in the kernel used in Ubuntu 11.04 is garbage. Upon installation, the Ethernet adapter would never go faster than 65 kB/s, and would only work for 30 seconds at a time, failing to transfer any data for several minutes at a time.
Solution: Gigabyte does not officially support Linux, but fortunately it is possible to get an updated driver from Realtek which works perfectly.
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