After update, ethernet doesn't work after every reboot

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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After update yesterday. My ethernet cannot connect anymore. It cannot access my Router’s config page but my router recognize that the device is connected.

I need to run sudo modprobe r8169 as suggested in one of the forum post.

After I run that, it worked but it won’t work anymore after reboot. So I have to run that command after every reboot.

What might be the issue and what is causing it? How should I resolve it? So that I won’t have to manually run the command every boot.

 inxi -nN
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: a8:a1:59:8b:3c:a9
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Is the 8168 driver installed?

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I don’t know how to check that.

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You could use yay -Ss r8168
It will say installed if it is.

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Oh it’s a package!! yes it’s installed.

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Strange, inxi showed r8169 (note the last number!). Are you sure?
Please show the full output of command

pacman -Q r8168
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OP modprobed 8169, uninstall 8168, 8169 will take over…

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