On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 3:09 PM SET via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I 'm planning to buy a PC with an MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI mother > board, having a Realtek RTL8111H ethernet device, and install Arch of > course. > > I 've seen many web pages about the need to install the r8168 package for > it to work. Some pages hint that the r8169 driver should work too. Almost > all of these sources are many years old. > > I wish some forum members could share their experience with this NIC on > current kernel. Does it just work? Is the r8168 package mandatory? Can > complex tweak be avoided? > > Thank you. > > > -- > Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma > brièveté. > I recently purchased an ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 with Realtek RTL8111H for ethernet (shows up in lspci as '08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)'). It 'just worked' for me, without any extra package. I'm currently on kernel 5.9.8-arch1-1 (haven't gotten around to the latest update yet).
