On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 15:17, <dmbuce@gmail.com> wrote:
Some more info: I noticed while looking through pacman.log that this is the first upgrade I've done since 2011-03-26. *wince*
On 06/26/2011 02:15 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM,<dmbuce@gmail.com> wrote:
# lspci | grep -i ethernet Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
After doing pacman -Syu, ethernet on my desktop stopped working. The card on my laptop is the same, at least according to lspci, and is working fine.
When I upgraded, there was a change in syntax in rc.conf for defining the network, but I'm just attempting dhcp for now before I try to set up a static ip:
interface=eth0 address= netmask= gateway=
Could you try with your old rc.conf? We didn't drop support for the old syntax, so it should still work. It would be good to rule that one out before anything else I think.
Trying dhcp with the old syntax fails, and configuring a static ip appears to succeed, but then fails when I try to do something with the connection.
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.116 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" INTERFACES=(eth0) gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1" ROUTES=(gateway)
Secondly, could you possibly downgrade some of your packages to figure out which one caused the problem? My guess is going to be kernel26, initscripts or udev.
After downgrading the kernel, my eth0 device no longer shows up in with ifconfig -a. Downgrading initscripts, udev, and mkinitcpio (which I needed to do for udev) didn't help.
Oh, but using r8169 instead of r8168 fixes that. nvm. Still can't get a working connection, though. Any other suggestions for packages to downgrade?
One more thing: have you noticed the change of syntax in rc.conf for blacklisting modules? Did you blacklist any modules before, that is not getting blacklisted anymore? Could you try blacklisting them using modprobe.conf?
Yes, I noticed this. The only thing I ever blacklisted before the upgrade was pcspkr, and that's no longer loaded automatically. While troubleshooting this issue, I've blacklisted r8169 in /etc/modprobe.d, but I undid that change and uninstalled the r8168 package while downgrading the packages you suggested (see above).
Please file a bug report if none of this solves your problem.
Should I file it upstream or on Arch's bugtracker? What package/project should I file it with?
-t
I made the following changes to my rc.conf file after the upgrade and haven't had any problems. HOSTNAME="gandalf" # interface=eth0 address=192.168.0.5 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 I haven't tried DHCP. Hope I haven't missed the point and that this helps. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!