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zaxdan69

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Registered: 2016-06-04

Posts: 296

[Solved]After update and reboot r8169 not loaded

I had this issue with lts kernel which I tried about a week before. When booting to lts kernel I had no internet and "ip link" outputs only lo device. I didn't have such problem with normal kernel though, so I uninstalled the lts kernel. I had no problems since then, but when I updated the system today and rebooted I started to have the same issue.
If I run:

modprobe r8169

Then I'm automatic connected until next reboot. I tried to edit /etc/mkintcpio.conf,  add the "r8169" in MODULES section and then run:

mkinitcpio -p linux

but it doesn't make any difference after rebooting and I still need to load the module.
How can I fix this?

Last edited by zaxdan69 (2021-07-31 17:43:24)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,935

Re: [Solved]After update and reboot r8169 not loaded

You probably installed r8168 and/or r8168-lts  both of which contain a blacklist to disable r8169 and in which case you probably want to remove them.

zaxdan69

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Registered: 2016-06-04

Posts: 296

Re: [Solved]After update and reboot r8169 not loaded

Thanks. I installed it before some months because I had some disconnection problems and I tried r8168. I thought I had remove it though and I also removed r8169 which I added to blacklist then.  But you have right it was installed. I removed it now and the problem solved.