Problem getting wired iternet to work: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

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Try it and see if his command works differently than trying to uninstall the package on the live environment.

Edit: As the wiki states the r8169 gets blacklisted when the package is installed. So if it doesn’t work on the live ISO that tells me your chip prefers the r8169.

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Alright, I’ll do so! I am afraid I have to wait until tomorrow. I need to put in another SSD and install EnOS on it. It’s not too late yet around here but I have had a bit of a rough day today. I think I am just gonna grab some food and hit the bed earlier.

Thank you Rick for helping me out. I really want to get EnOS going on this machine. The idea of being stuck with the other os is just unbearable.

I’ll get back to you guys tomorrow.

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If you do get it EOS installed you will probably have to still remove the r8168 package if it gets installed.

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Two things to try:

  • install r8168 (sudo pacman -S r8168) and reboot, does ethernet work?
  • uninstall r8168 (sudo pacman -R r8168) and reboot, does ethernet work?

Note that unless you deleted your package cache, you should have package r8168 in the cache.

You can also check the driver in use after reboot:

lsmod | grep r816

It should show either 8168 or 8169 in use.

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I need to do this on the installed system, right?

By the way, I am in the live now and USB tethering my phone gives me connection to internet.

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Yes. But you can run the lsmod stuff on live user too, just to check how it works.

Edit: you shouldn’t need to use tethering for this test. So better try without it…

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@manuel
When you uninstall the package from the live environment & reboot isn’t it still on the ISO? So doesn’t it just reload the r8168? Do you have to reboot in order to make the r8169 load or can it be loaded with modprobe? I’m just a little confused why it’s not working?

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No need to install / uninstall on the live user. Only in the installed system.

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Okay but how to get it to work on the live ISO if it wants the r8169 is what I’m trying to figure out.

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Question is (I wasn’t able to determine it from above): does ethernet work with the liveuser (ISO)?

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No i don’t think so. That’s what i asked first. @pebcak can confirm.

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No it doesn’t.

lsmod | grep r816

Gives (in the live without tethering):

r8168                   565248     0 
r8169                   98304      0
mdio_devres             16384      1  r8169
libphy                 151552      1 r8169,mdio_devres,realtek
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And can you do the same in the installed system?

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I would need to get back to you tomorrow for that. I need to put in a new SSD to install EnOS on.

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Take your time, we are in no hurry! :wink:

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This means it’s loading the r8169 then?

Edit: If that’s the case then .

sudo rmmod r8169
sudo modprobe r8168
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Great! Good to know! See you guys tomorrow then! Thank you so much for the help so far!

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Looks like so, doesn’t it?
I will have it installed by tomorrow. It is good that USB tethering my phone gets me on ine so I could go with Cinnamon and have an updated system. So lets see what happens fro there.

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Just try as above first on the live ISO.

sudo rmmod r8169
sudo modprobe r8168

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Just ran this in live ISO

sudo rmmod r8169
sudo modprobe r8168

No change :frowning: