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sol.invictus

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Registered: 2013-05-19

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] no wireed network with Realtek RTL8111

After uninstalling KDE I lost network

lspci -v output for the realtek RTL8111

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Motherboard
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
	I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
	Memory at fdbff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Memory at fdbf8000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

notice it does not show the " Kernel driver in use: " line

I think the driver is r8169 and  tried dmesg | grep r8169 which return nothing
Also nothing for dmesg | grep 8111

The mother board is a Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H

Last edited by sol.invictus (2013-06-14 05:53:56)

Skaveria

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Registered: 2013-05-18

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] no wireed network with Realtek RTL8111

I think you need to run lspci with the -k flag to see the kernel driver. Perhaps the driver is in a module rather than built in? try modprobe r8169 (assuming it is the correct module name)

sluckxz

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] no wireed network with Realtek RTL8111

odd coincidence with kde removal.

lspci -v does show module info for me.

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0456
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
        Memory at f0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: atl1c
        Kernel modules: atl1c

there is a wiki entry dedicated to your chipset https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HC … 11.2F8168B

r8168 can be found in the [Official Repositories] and should be used for a reliable connection. Blacklist r8169, if r8168 is not automatically loaded by udev add it to your list of user specified modules.

some people on Ubuntu are using the official Realtek driver,  comments as recent as early 2013.
https://unixblogger.wordpress.com/2011/ … rnet-card/

Last edited by sluckxz (2013-06-13 23:24:20)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: [SOLVED] no wireed network with Realtek RTL8111

You need to use the r8168 package from the repos.  Install it and then blacklist r8169.  I have this card too, though I have a (rev 7), and if I don't use r8168 my ethernet is just absolute shit.

sol.invictus

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Registered: 2013-05-19

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] no wireed network with Realtek RTL8111

I installed the r8168 driver and blacklisted the r8169 driver as I was advised, and it worked thanks for the help.