Wired networking module not loading

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Loving EndeavorOS, been running it for many months, but after an upgrade I noticed I didn’t have wired networking anymore. I took a look, it was easy enough to bring Wi-fi back up via the UI so I could look up solutions, and figured out I could bring wired networking back up with:

sudo modprobe r8169

Once that worked, I added a file:

/etc/modules-load.d/r8169.conf

Which just contains the module name:

r8169

However, this does not come up on boot, I have to run:

sudo modprobe r8169

To get wired networking working again. Any idea what I’m doing wrong, or why this won’t load? Thanks!

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Probably you should simply uninstall package r8168.

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You don’t need to do that - the kernel will automatically load modules for detected hardware unless they are blacklisted.

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And reboot. :smile:

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Just out of curiosity, would adding r8169 to MODULES=() in mkinitcpio.conf work as well?

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This worked! Thank you! How did you know that was installed, and was that just interfering with r8169 being loaded?

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Thank you, I took that file out too, and it works without it now!

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He’s a wizard! It’s also a semi regular quirk of some computers. But, I’m still going with a wizard. . .

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magic

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The ”magic” is it is installed by default. :wink:
There are many threads about this issue here, feel free to look at them.
Some machines work with r8168, some with r8169, and some with either of them.

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Excellent, thank you - I only searched for networking issues, should have searched by the module name

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That Magic by @manuel!

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Perfect! Sorry I didn’t see that before, great docs!

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