On 30.06.2019 02:14, Karsten Wiborg wrote: > Hi Heiner, > > thanks for the speedy reply. > > On 6/30/19 12:09 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote: >> If r8169 (the mainline driver) is running, why do you want to switch >> to r8168 (the Realtek vendor driver)? The latter is not supported by >> the kernel community. > Well I did install r8168 because r8169 is not working. > Didn't even get to see the MAC of the NIC. > >>> 2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group >>> default qlen 1000 >>> link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> Seems like the network isn't started. > Jepp, that is the output from the r8169. > Indeed the MAC is missing: [ 2.839776] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: RTL8168h/8111h, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 541, IRQ 126
This works with RTL8168h in other systems, so I'd say you should check with the vendor. Maybe it's a BIOS issue. > Regards, > Karsten > Heiner
