Have you checked package r8168 (community) and r8168-lts? ArchWiki's Network Configuration article [1] mentions 8169 as one of those models that could be affected. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration/Ethernet Regards, Nicolás Adamo El sáb., 9 de may. de 2020 a la(s) 15:08, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general ( arch-general@archlinux.org) escribió:
On Sat, 9 May 2020 20:08:52 +0200, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote:
The issue appears with 5.6.x and also 5.4.x LTS, now even the DHCP request failed after rebooting with 5.6.11.
As it appears with both kernel branches, I hardly believe it's a kernel issue. But dying ethernet chipsets on a board?
Perhaps the hardware is broken. I don't know. I wouldn't exclude the kernel from being the culprit.
It's not related to your issue, but it might be a hardware issue, too, but for rt-patched kernels >= 5.4.
My PC doesn't suffer from LAN issues, but while Core/linux-lts and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-rt-lts/ migrated to 5.4, I stay with 4.19 rt, https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.19/ , still LTS, too, https://www.kernel.org/ .
$ pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-cornflower,,-securityink,-pussytoes}}|cut -d\ -f2 5.6.11.arch1-1 5.6.10_rt5-1.0 5.6.4_rt3-1.0 4.19.120_rt52-0 4.19.115_rt50-0
I'm doing this because the rt patched kernels >= 5.4 all failed to work with virtualbox and my hardware. Without the rt patch I didn't notice an issue. The 4.19 rt patched kernels don't cause any trouble. Btw. I've got no time for troubleshooting, so I stay with 4.19 for the moment.
-- Nicolás Adamo