Morning guys
I have a problem. Since a day or two my ethernet doesn’t connect me to the internet anymore. I was wondering why the system showed me I was on wifi, so I shut wifi off and was disconnected. I have 3 more PCs plugged into the same router/modem and they all work flawlessly. That’s very weird. Any of you had similar experiences? And what can I do to remedy the situation?
Something wrong with the latest kernel 5.11.6?
Tech: We’re on 20/20 fibre, ONI and router are not even half a meter away from my main machine and all used to work flawlessly. I just wanna connect via ethernet so I don’t need to steal the bandwith speed from hubby who connects wirelessly from another room.
If you were required to install a dkms package for the ethernet to work then, it might help to wait a few days for an update to fix it. Wifi on my pc stopped working with the kernel update, but update fixed it.
Manually compiling the drivers for my wifi, i noticed that the old code refuses to compile against the latest kernel headers.
Nothing of that sort unfortunately. It was working and then - without giving any notice - it didn’t work anymore. I’m installing fresh now and ethernet works. At least for now.
I had exactly the same issue today.
Wired ethernet suddenly stopped working.
I didn’t do anything, just booted up, Megasync synced and after this the internet was dead.
Only on this desktop, the rest of the laptops are working just fine.
Same problem with the lts and the new kernel.
When I boot Windows which is on another disk/same machine the connection is fine.
Booting up a live ISO, Manjaro or elementary the connection is fine.
It looks like it’s running on the kernel module r8169 currently. Not sure about the vpn what it has to do with it. You could try unloading the r8169 kernel module and load the r8168. It was my undertsanding that when the r8168 package is installed that it blacklists the r8169 so it won’t load? You could check that. With an update it may have bumped out the r8168.
sudo rmmod r8169
sudo modprobe r8168
Edit: I’m also not positive I’m reading it right either? It could be that it actually is using r8168 but the r8169 is interfering? I would think the module should list as r8168 if it’s using it.
Another thing that I dont understand is why this usb wifi device that I have doesn’t work any more on the same desktop.
I have this thing lying around and use it sometimes in case the ethernet fails, been using it successfully in the past.
Now it shows the wifi applet as working, even the percentage is showing (80%), but there is no connection…
I’ve removed r8168 but then there is no network at all, so I reinstalled this one.
$ sudo nmcli dev status
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
enp2s0 ethernet connected Wired connection 1
ipv6leakintrf0 dummy connected pvpn-ipv6leak-protection
lo loopback unmanaged --
That’s what i wasn’t sure if whether it was actually using r8168 or not. I guess it lists the other module even though it’s not loaded. So your issue must be something else.
This is mine on Ethernet and WiFi both connected.
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$ sudo nmcli dev status
[sudo] password for ricklinux:
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
enp39s0 ethernet connected Wired connection 1
wlan0 wifi connected xxxxxxx
virbr0 bridge connected (externally) virbr0
lo loopback unmanaged --
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$
Or i disconnected WiFi
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$ sudo nmcli dev status
[sudo] password for ricklinux:
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
enp39s0 ethernet connected Wired connection 1
virbr0 bridge connected (externally) virbr0
wlan0 wifi disconnected --
lo loopback unmanaged --
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$
Yes, but I have tried both.
I just updated the system and the internet is running normal again, so I don’t know what caused it.
The only thing I can think of is the installation of Proton VPN, this is gone now since I went back three days.
So on yours it shows driver r8168 and modules r8169.
On mine it shows driver r8169 and modules r8168. So i’m running on the r8169 and have the r8168 installed.
Now i have removed the r8168 package. Mine runs on either so you can see here.
That’s very weird. Any of you had similar experiences? And what can I do to remedy the situation?
