Enabling r8168-lts

[ElliotJr]

Hello everyone. I recently started using Endeavour OS and Linux in general. I’m encountered problem with RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller. I’ve never used the Ethernet port with Endeavour OS installed, but when I bought this laptop with preinstalled Windows, the port worked 100%. Recently, I needed the Ethernet port, but it doesn’t even show any indicators when I connected the patch cord. Looking trough different solutions to the problem, I saw that many people had problems related to the driver r8169, and I decided to install the previous version of the driver(r8168) and block the old one. So, In this topic, they recommended installing r8168-lts version via sudo pacman -S r8168-lts, which I did, but when I tried to modprobe r8168 it into the kernel, I got these errors. What should I do?

Some other useful(i hope) information

blacklist.conf didn’t exist before I created it, btw

ethernet interfaces existed before, i swear

So, guys, what should i do?
I’m sorry for my bad english

[manuel]

Welcome to the community!

Did you reboot after installing r8168-lts?

You might want to try r8168-dkms from the AUR:

sudo pacman -Syu --needed linux-headers linux-lts-headers
yay -S r8168-dkms

r8168-dkms will blacklist r8169 so you don’t need to do that manually.
Then reboot and see if this helps.

[ElliotJr]

Yea, thanks for the reply! Right after posting this topic i deleted r8168-lts and installed r8168-dkms, but as far as i can see, it did not worked

interfaces came back, though