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leberyo

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Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 123

Re: [Solved] No Ethernet Internet. Please Help.

Thanks for the help.  I downloaded the Aur package and source from Realtek and ran sudo pacman -U ...
ifconfig -a doesn't list my "eth0" anymore only "lo"

leberyo

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Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 123

Re: [Solved] No Ethernet Internet. Please Help.

Houston We Have Lift Off!

The r8168 package worked.  On rc.conf I had added (!r8169 r8168) thinking it would add the r8168 package this way.  When I left it (!r8169) it worked!

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,774

Re: [Solved] No Ethernet Internet. Please Help.

I don't think the module has been loaded into the kernel yet.  From a running kernel, you need to modprobe theModuleNameYouInstalled
Rebooting might pick it up automatically.

If you don't know the module name, do a pacman -Ql thePackageYouInstalledInTheLastPost and look for the file name that ends in '.ko'.  The prefix is that which you want to modprobe.

Edit: Never mind   Glad it works.  Be sure to edit your first post and add solved.

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fphillips

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 202

Re: [Solved] No Ethernet Internet. Please Help.

doing a "dmesg | grep r8169" I get:
[    6.208961] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[    6.208985] r8169 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    6.209081] r8169 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    6.209086] r8169 0000:03:00.0: (unregistered net_device): unknown MAC, using family default
[    6.209132] r8169 0000:03:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[    6.209307] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc90000656000, 1c:6f:65:3e:81:ae, XID 0c200000 IRQ 46
[   20.904076] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[   20.904082] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down

Your XID (chip id) is 0c200000, which is currently identified as 8168b/8111b even though it is actually 8168e/8111e. Kernel 2.6.39 in [testing] will identify it correctly. It will use /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-{1,2,3}.fw from the linux-firmware package (see dmesg after r8169 loads).

For anyone else looking at this, this also goes for XID 0c100000.

I've seen some mention though of the (complete) support only being in 2.6.40 (now 3.0), not 2.6.39, but I'm not sure of which exact commits it is. I do know the identification and firmware part is as I said above.

Last edited by fphillips (2011-05-30 19:58:25)