what make you think its a driver problem? did you connect a serial 0-modem cable to see the local console? from my experience here its not, for >>90% of the cases when it comes to network its something else, the r8168 driver in the extra.lzma's available is recent enough for rtl8111g (same as 8168 or 8118), many people with that chip already using it   as we are in 6.2.2 area here its to mention IF using 6.2.2 dsm *.pat file you will need to use exactly the extra.lzma made f