FYI in terms of sustainable options I was able to find a very hard to find .deb with the latest driver as a DKMS module. It works fine for me on Ubuntu 19.10. I really wish this was in a repository which was part of universe but I'm never figured out how to do things like that.
# dpkg -l | grep e1000e ii e1000e-dkms 3.6.0 all Intel e1000e Ethernet adapter driver (DKMS version) Details here: https://github.com/koljah-de/e1000e-dkms-debian The latest V3.6.0 driver I use: https://github.com/koljah-de/e1000e- dkms-debian/releases/tag/3.6.0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1785171 Title: Intel I219-V Ethernet Interface on Ubuntu Linux Using e1000e Driver keeps Dropping Internet Connection To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1785171/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs