Hi On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > As a continuation of the disc controller failure/system rebuild, I have > the new box built and a pair of fresh drives waiting for a new Arch install. > This motherboard has the Realtek 8111/8168/8411 chipset. (Gigabyte > GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard). > > I am booting with the latest install medium which boots fine in legacy or > EUFI mode. No matter what I do, I cannot get an IPv4 address. Check this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=200514 is it what you see? What happens if you downgrade to dhcpcd-6.9.0 ? > I have read: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Realtek_no_link_.2F_WOL_problem > > (that's not the problem, link light is on, activity indicator is flashing, > and link is reported 'Up' by 'ip link') > > I have read: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Realtek_RTL8111.2F8168B > > - installed (pacman -U r8168-8.040.00-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz) > - blacklisted r8169 > - loaded r8168 > - confirmed the NIC is using r8168 w/lspci -v > - systemctl restart dhcpcd (many times) > - systemctl status dhcpcd reports > no IPv6 Routers > no IPv4 Leases > request timeout > > It's not the cable or my dhcpd server, I boot the box with the failed disc > controller, and it is assigned an address just fine. (same cable) > > I'm stuck, looking at the log on my dhcp server, the requests are never > seen. It's like the card isn't sending, but the link light is fine and the > activity light on the NIC is flashes when it sees traffic? > > What else can I try? > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
