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turlando

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Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 5

Ethernet connection (netctl) stopped working

My Arch box few days ago stopped connecting to my switch.

Here is my dmesg about the network kernel module:

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:01:0a.0 (unregistered net_device): not PCI Express
r8169 0000:01:0a.0 (unregistered net_device): unknown MAC, using family default
r8169 0000:01:0a.0 (unregistered net_device): rtl_chipcmd_cond == 1 (loop: 100, delay: 100).
r8169 0000:01:0a.0 eth0 RTL8169 at 0xffffc900108f4c00, ff:Ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, XID 9cf0f8ff IRQ 19
r8169 0000:01:0a.0 eth0 jumbo features [frames: 7152 bytes, tx checksumming: ok]

My ip link ls enp1s10:

2: enp1s10: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisk noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

And my netctl profile:

Interface=enp1s10
Connection=ethernet
IP=static
Address=('192.168.1.6/24')
Gateway='192.168.1.1'
DNS=('192.168.1.1')

This is what happens when I try to start it through netctl start enp1s10-static:

Job for netctl@enp1s10\x2dstatic.service failded. See 'systemctl status netctl@enp1s10\x2dstatic.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

netctl@enp1s10x2static.service - Networking for netctl profile enp1s10x2dstatic
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netctl@.service; static)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)

network[3634]: Starting network profile 'enp1s10-static'...
network[3634]: failed to bring interface 'enp1s10' up
network[3634]: failed to bring the network up for profile 'enp1s10-static'
systemd[1]: netctl@enp1s10\x2dstatic.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: Failed to start Standard eth connection.

Is this a device/driver issue?
Thank you in advance.

Last edited by turlando (2014-06-14 07:28:55)

corvinusz

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From: Orsk, Russia

Registered: 2011-03-24

Posts: 4

Re: Ethernet connection (netctl) stopped working

Seems you are right. It is a device/driver issue.
Try to seek your network devices:
$ ip -a
May be it just was renamed.

turlando

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Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 5

Re: Ethernet connection (netctl) stopped working

Option "-a" is unknown, try "ip -help".

Xyne

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Re: Ethernet connection (netctl) stopped working

Option "-a" is unknown, try "ip -help".

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ukhippo

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Registered: 2014-02-21

Posts: 366

Re: Ethernet connection (netctl) stopped working

Option "-a" is unknown, try "ip -help".

It's “ip a” which is short for “ip addr” (i.e. no hyphen)

turlando

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Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 5

Re: Ethernet connection (netctl) stopped working

Guys, I can't explain how it happened, but I just unplugged and plugged in again the Ethernet cable and it came out of the coma.

Thank you for your replies.

Edit: I spoke too soon. It went down again. But I found out that the rtl_chipcmd_cond == 1 (loop 100 delay 100) string in the log could be a r8169 segfault...

Last edited by turlando (2014-06-14 07:30:43)