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I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a Surface Book with dual boot, and I can't get the ethernet connection to work. Although the wifi connects, I keep getting the "activation of network connection failed" error for the ethernet.

sudo lshw -C network gives me:

  *-network                 

       description: Wireless interface

       product: 88W8897 [AVASTAR] 802.11ac Wireless

       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

       logical name: wlp3s0

       version: 00

       serial: 98:5f:d3:45:f8:58

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=mwifiex_pcie ip=192.168.1.189 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

       resources: irq:133 memory:b9500000-b95fffff memory:b9400000-b94fffff

  *-network

       description: Ethernet interface

       physical id: 1

       logical name: enxc49dede69606

       serial: c4:9d:ed:e6:96:06

       size: 10Mbit/s

       capacity: 1Gbit/s

       capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8152 driverversion=v1.09.9 duplex=half link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s

But I suppose this is not near enough information to investigate. Please let me know what else is useful to know in this case, and I'll add that to the question.

PS: I saw this question, but I have all the updates installed, and I still can't connect, so this is not a duplicate.

UPDATE:
Before turning off the computer, I turned off the cable connection in Settings. Today when I turned it on, the ethernet button is gone:

Running journalctl gives this: https://gist.github.com/sedulam/b37515fc90ab41a6d1c88a951baf11f6

ip ro gives this:

default via 192.168.1.254 dev wlp3s0 proto dhcp metric 600 

169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp3s0 scope link metric 1000 

192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp3s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.195 metric 600

systemctl gives: https://gist.github.com/sedulam/77d905dc3ecdf379a785b0694e23ed3e

ps aux | egrep wpa|conn gives:

root      1037  0.0  0.0  45016  7504 ?        Ss   21:16   0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s -O /run/wpa_supplicant

pedro     3460  0.0  0.0  21536  1088 pts/0    S+   21:21   0:00 grep -E --color=auto wpa|conn

service --status-all gives: https://gist.github.com/sedulam/ae85b271a24aecdd3f04f920df2059e9

Surface Book model: Microsoft Surface Book 13.5 inch Touchscreen Laptop (Intel Core i7-6600U 2.6 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, NVIDIA 1 GB Integrated Graphics, Windows 10 Pro)

If a dual boot with Windows 10, you may need to disable the fast startup options first. See link...

I needed to do this to allow to connect to the internet. Do this first, then install Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Network Connection Issue

I had this problem with network-manager too and it helped simply to re-install it:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall network-manager

Then reboot your machine. It could help. If not, I would avoid dual-boot.