Hi All, This is a known problem kernel uses r8169 ethernet firmware for r8168 chips and causes connectivity issues.Thanks gentoo there is a r8168 package in net-misc but i encountered a problem.
James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org>, Sat, 28 Apr 2018 00:09, commit ee232457 <https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ee232457ed7bad1c3d62c4c509419086b6ea3a65> -CONFIG_CHECK="!R8169" -ERROR_R8169="${P} requires Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter (CONFIG_R8169) to be DISABLED" emerge --ask net-misc/r8168 * Messages for package net-misc/r8168-8.045.08: * r8168-8.045.08 requires Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter (CONFIG_R8169) to be DISABLED It seems not allow to build r8168 if kernel compiled with r8169 module.Do we need to re-compile kernel without r8169? After i disabled r8169 in /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)/*.config* manually, build works. #CONFIG_R8169=m emerge --ask net-misc/r8168 lspci -v 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169, r8168 modprobe -r r8169 > modprobe r8168 modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'r8168': Required key not available [*] Module signature verification [*] Require modules to be validly signed [*] Automatically sign all modules Which hash algorithm should modules be signed with? (Sign modules with SHA-512) ---> I signed r8168 manually and disabled r8169: /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)/scripts/sign-file sha512 /usr/src/linux-$(uname > -r)/certs/signing_key.pem /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)/certs/signing_key.x509 > /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/r8168.ko modprobe r8168 > echo "blacklist r8169" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf # This is not > working for me something forcing to it load. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="modprobe.blacklist=r8169" #This is working way > to push r8168 instead of r8169 for me. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > dracut --force --regenerate-all lspci -v 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller Kernel driver in use: r8168 Kernel modules: r8169, r8168 dmesg | grep r8168 [ 3.951450] r8168: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 3.951732] calling init_module+0x0/0x1000 [r8168] @ 564 [ 3.951750] r8168 Gigabit Ethernet driver 8.045.08-NAPI loaded [ 3.967857] r8168: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625. [ 3.967861] r8168 Copyright (C) 2017 Realtek NIC software team < nic...@realtek.com> [ 3.967893] initcall init_module+0x0/0x1000 [r8168] returned 0 after 15775 usecs [ 3.993330] r8168 0000:02:00.0 eno1: renamed from eth0 [ 808.484879] r8168: eno1: link up ifconfig eno1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.34.105.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.34.105.255 inet6 fe80::f9e1:641f prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 48:ba:4e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 408 bytes 119641 (116.8 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 507 bytes 84037 (82.0 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 127 base 0x5000 It seems stable but i don't know why it is restricted for r8169 enabled kernel. Sincerely.
