Running EMC2 on Atom 330 motherboard

Key Steps in getting R8168 module to work at boot
I have had success by compiling a module from source. Below is a description of what I did to get a working r8168 module for my system. (Again, my script does all of this for you, and with more safety checks.)

Get root privileges:
sudo bash

Trash the non-functioning module:
rmmod r8169

Get the 8168 driver source. 
UPDATE: 
Realtek has removed direct access to the source tarballs. 
You will need to manually visit the website and download the Linux tarball for the R8168/R8111 family NICs. 
Then:

tar xjf r8168-8.011.00.tar.bz2
cd ./r8168-8.011.00

Now compile the code. 
This may fail if you don’t have kernel headers and other standard features of a build environment:

make clean
make modules
make install

Make sure modprobe knows not to use r8169, and that depmod doesn’t find the r8169 module:
echo "nblacklist r8169n" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
r8168_location=/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
mv ${r8168_location} ${r8168_location}.bak

Let the OS know about the new module:
depmod
insmod ./src/r8168.ko

Put your work in the initrd, too:
mv /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r).bak
mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) $(uname -r)

Reboot!
shutdown -r now
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