On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:05 PM, <dmbuce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My card: > > # lspci | grep -i ethernet > Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI > Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) > > After doing pacman -Syu, ethernet on my desktop stopped working. The card on > my laptop is the same, at least according to lspci, and is working fine. > > When I upgraded, there was a change in syntax in rc.conf for defining the > network, but I'm just attempting dhcp for now before I try to set up a > static ip: > > interface=eth0 > address= > netmask= > gateway= > > > I've tried resetting the router and switching from the kernel's r8169 driver > to the r8168 driver from the aur. I compiled the aur driver on my laptop and > transferred to the desktop on usb -- as long as they're both x86_64, this > shouldn't be a problem, right? > > Regardless of my choice of driver, ethernet on the laptop works fine, and > doesn't work at all on the desktop. If I set up ethernet manually using > ifconfig to define the address/netmask/broadcast/etc (making sure the routes > are correct), everything appears to work fine until I try to ping the router > and get "Destination Host Unreachable". > > And the kicker is that the light on the router for the port I have my > ethernet cable plugged into will light up for the laptop, but not the > desktop. Given this and the other behavior, I'm inclined to think it's a > hardware issue, but this hardware is only several months old, and having > this happen right after an upgrade seems unlikely to be a coincidence. > Anything else I can try short of reinstalling or getting a replacement from > the manufacturer? I'm using netcfg, and haven't found problems so far with all changes... The daemon is net-profiles, and you can copy the example for static wired profile into a valid profile, and setup rc.conf accordingly. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg -- Javier.
