Problem with internet on dual boot system

bo19 · 2016-02-01 23:02:05

I currently have arch Linux dual booted on my computer with windows 7 and one problem I am currently having is that the internet connection works in windows and when I boot into arch it works, but if I booted arch then restart into windows, the hardware is stuck in a state that Arch put it in when I booted into it. Reading online about this was suggested to disable wake on lan, but I have it off and that has not solved it. Is there a way to get Arch to release control of the ethernet device on my system so that Windows will not have problems?

x33a · 2016-02-02 06:41:29

What ethernet card are you using and which driver?

mich41 · 2016-02-02 09:09:52

So you have to power cycle the machine for it to work again in Windows?

I'd see if there are updates available for Windows driver.

I wonder if it would help if you enabled booting from network in BIOS, maybe the BIOS will switch the adapter to some state usable by Windows.

As for disabling WoL, maybe they meant disabling it with ethtool on Linux - did you do that?

bo19 · 2016-02-03 01:49:22

I am using the r8169 driver and my network hardware is "Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)" I have disabled WOL currently with the ethtool so should I try installing a newer realtek driver from realteks website for linux?

katsuki · 2016-02-03 20:58:45

It sounds like the Linux driver is putting the network card into a strange state that a cold boot should clear.

I'd love to see the output of 'lspci -nnvk' with respect to your ethernet controller as well as the output of 'ip addr'.

Do you see anything about the ethernet controller in dmesg?

bo19 · 2016-02-04 04:56:18

Output of ip addr:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 
    inet 192.168.0.10/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic enp3s0
       valid_lft 2722sec preferred_lft 2722sec
    inet6 fe80:: scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Output of lspci:

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35
	I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
	Memory at dc104000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at dc100000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
	Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
	Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

Also the only thing I see in dmesg about the ethernet controller is the loading on system startup and what driver it is using.

Last edited by bo19 (2016-02-04 05:45:23)

x33a · 2016-02-04 05:38:14

@bo19,

Please use code tags for your output. Also, run the lspci command as root.

katsuki · 2016-02-08 16:14:57

I found this based on that information:

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Realtek_8169_driver_problem

It says you should enable WoL on Windows as one of the possible work arounds.

Last edited by katsuki (2016-02-08 16:56:34)

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#1 2016-02-01 23:02:05

Problem with internet on dual boot system

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Re: Problem with internet on dual boot system

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