Update broke wired network connection

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#21

Hi Jim. Here’s a kernel regression report that is likely impacting you here…

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209081

#22

Thanks, Deano - I’ll check that out.

#23

Is the module loaded?

lsmod | grep -i r816

If no r8169

grep -i 'blacklist r8169' /etc/modprobe.d/*
#24

Yes, the module is loaded. Best to read the thread from the start for a complete picture.

#25

Yeah, it’s definitely the r8169 regression. I just reconfigured to use r8168, and after a couple of reboots and forcing the card to use the 8168 module (and disabling my wifi interface), it’s working again.

Thanks for the assist, everyone. Appreciated. :slight_smile:

#26

Good stuff! :slight_smile:

#27

Do we have a Realtek revision issue?

  • For Jim, the revision of the RTL8111/8168/8411 controller is ‘0c’ – r8168 is OK …
  • On this system, the revision of the RTL8111/8168/8411 controller is ‘15’ – r8169 is OK …
#28

r8169 is the driver builtin the kernel.
r8168 is the original driver from the realtek side.

#29

As I already mentioned back in post #20 :wink:

#30

Could you perhaps explain how you managed to do this? I am struck by the same issue today (on tumbleweed, since snapshot of 21-11). At least, I think I am, see:

~] dmesg|tail
 1950.981474] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 1956.101341] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 1961.989715] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 1967.109372] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 1972.997226] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 1988.101234] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 1993.989184] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 1999.109179] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 2004.997116] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
 2014.980936] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: rtl_rxtx_empty_cond == 0 (loop: 42, delay: 100).
~]

I tried to install this package, but somehow it fails:

Software installation Installation was only partially successful.

 The following packages could not be installed 


  - r8168

I think YaST only managed to add the repositories.

#31

Problem is fixed! Not sure how though. Went back to a older snapshot (17-11), which didn’t solve the problem (neither did booting with a different kernel, by the way) - so I thought I’d run the update again. And then it just worked?