Some more info: I noticed while looking through pacman.log that this is
the first upgrade I've done since 2011-03-26. *wince*
On 06/26/2011 02:15 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM,<dmbuce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# 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=
Could you try with your old rc.conf? We didn't drop support for the
old syntax, so it should still work. It would be good to rule that one
out before anything else I think.
Trying dhcp with the old syntax fails, and configuring a static ip
appears to succeed, but then fails when I try to do something with the
connection.
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.116 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)
Secondly, could you possibly downgrade some of your packages to figure
out which one caused the problem? My guess is going to be kernel26,
initscripts or udev.
After downgrading the kernel, my eth0 device no longer shows up in with
ifconfig -a. Downgrading initscripts, udev, and mkinitcpio (which I
needed to do for udev) didn't help.
Oh, but using r8169 instead of r8168 fixes that. nvm. Still can't get a
working connection, though. Any other suggestions for packages to downgrade?
One more thing: have you noticed the change of syntax in rc.conf for
blacklisting modules? Did you blacklist any modules before, that is
not getting blacklisted anymore? Could you try blacklisting them using
modprobe.conf?
Yes, I noticed this. The only thing I ever blacklisted before the
upgrade was pcspkr, and that's no longer loaded automatically. While
troubleshooting this issue, I've blacklisted r8169 in /etc/modprobe.d,
but I undid that change and uninstalled the r8168 package while
downgrading the packages you suggested (see above).
Please file a bug report if none of this solves your problem.
Should I file it upstream or on Arch's bugtracker? What package/project
should I file it with?
-t
