On 06/26/2011 02:50 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote:
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
How odd. Every other method I've tried for setting up a static IP
succeeds (but doesn't actually get me a working connection). Netcfg
gives me this:
root@bender:~# cat /etc/network.d/ethernet
CONNECTION='ethernet'
DESCRIPTION='Ethernet'
INTERFACE='eth0'
IP='static'
ADDR='192.168.0.120'
GATEWAY='192.168.0.1'
DNS=('192.168.0.1')
root@bender:~# netcfg ethernet
:: ethernet up
[BUSY]
> No connection
[FAIL]
root@bender:~#
Doing 'sh -x netcfg ethernet' shows that it's printing 'No connection'
from '/usr/lib/network/connections/ethernet up ethernet' on this snippet:
if ! checkyesno "${SKIPNOCARRIER:-no}" && ip link show dev
"$INTERFACE" | fgrep -q "NO-CARRIER"; then
sleep ${CARRIER_TIMEOUT:-2} # Some cards are plain slow to come
up. Don't fail immediately.
if ip link show dev "$INTERFACE" | fgrep -q "NO-CARRIER"; then
report_iproute "No connection"
fi
fi
And if I bring up the connection with the old rc.conf syntax, 'ip link
show dev eth0' indeed shows:
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:30:67:8f:7c:a8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Which maybe means something to someone. ;)
At this point, I'm ready to chalk it up to the hardware. I can reboot my
laptop, and the light on the router that indicates that it sees the
ethernet cable will only turn off for a second here and there throughout
the shutdown/boot process. I do the same with this machine, and don't
see so much as a flicker. I tried downloading and booting from an ubuntu
live cd and didn't have any luck getting a connection. And both of my
machines are using the same NIC (at least according to lspci), and
should be at roughly the same version of the applicable software -- I
updated my laptop an hour, at most, before I updated my desktop.
