[arch-general] Ethernet stopped working after update

[dmbuce at gmail.com]

On 06/26/2011 06:17 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from dmbuce's message of 2011-06-27 01:03:06 +0200:
>> On 06/26/2011 02:50 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:05 PM,<dmbuce at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>> My card:
>>>>
>>>> # 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=
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've tried resetting the router and switching from the kernel's r8169 driver
>>>> to the r8168 driver from the aur. I compiled the aur driver on my laptop and
>>>> transferred to the desktop on usb -- as long as they're both x86_64, this
>>>> shouldn't be a problem, right?
>>>>
>>>> Regardless of my choice of driver, ethernet on the laptop works fine, and
>>>> doesn't work at all on the desktop. If I set up ethernet manually using
>>>> ifconfig to define the address/netmask/broadcast/etc (making sure the routes
>>>> are correct), everything appears to work fine until I try to ping the router
>>>> and get "Destination Host Unreachable".
>>>>
>>>> And the kicker is that the light on the router for the port I have my
>>>> ethernet cable plugged into will light up for the laptop, but not the
>>>> desktop. Given this and the other behavior, I'm inclined to think it's a
>>>> hardware issue, but this hardware is only several months old, and having
>>>> this happen right after an upgrade seems unlikely to be a coincidence.
>>>> Anything else I can try short of reinstalling or getting a replacement from
>>>> the manufacturer?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using netcfg, and haven't found problems so far with all
>>> changes...  The daemon is net-profiles, and you can copy the example
>>> for static wired profile into a valid profile, and setup rc.conf
>>> accordingly.
>>>
>>> See:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
>>>
>>>
>>
>> How odd. Every other method I've tried for setting up a static IP
>> succeeds (but doesn't actually get me a working connection). Netcfg
>> gives me this:
>>
>> root at bender:~# cat /etc/network.d/ethernet
>> CONNECTION='ethernet'
>> DESCRIPTION='Ethernet'
>> INTERFACE='eth0'
>> IP='static'
>> ADDR='192.168.0.120'
>> GATEWAY='192.168.0.1'
>> DNS=('192.168.0.1')
>> root at bender:~# netcfg ethernet
>> :: ethernet up
>>    [BUSY]
>>    >  No connection
>>
>>     [FAIL]
>> root at bender:~#
>>
>>
>> Doing 'sh -x netcfg ethernet' shows that it's printing 'No connection'
>> from '/usr/lib/network/connections/ethernet up ethernet' on this snippet:
>>
>>       if ! checkyesno "${SKIPNOCARRIER:-no}"&&  ip link show dev
>> "$INTERFACE" | fgrep -q "NO-CARRIER"; then
>>           sleep ${CARRIER_TIMEOUT:-2} # Some cards are plain slow to come
>> up. Don't fail immediately.
>>           if ip link show dev "$INTERFACE" | fgrep -q "NO-CARRIER"; then
>>               report_iproute "No connection"
>>           fi
>>       fi
>>
>>
>> And if I bring up the connection with the old rc.conf syntax, 'ip link
>> show dev eth0' indeed shows:
>>
>> 2: eth0:<NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP>  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
>> state DOWN qlen 1000
>>       link/ether 00:30:67:8f:7c:a8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>
>> Which maybe means something to someone. ;)
>>
>> At this point, I'm ready to chalk it up to the hardware. I can reboot my
>> laptop, and the light on the router that indicates that it sees the
>> ethernet cable will only turn off for a second here and there throughout
>> the shutdown/boot process. I do the same with this machine, and don't
>> see so much as a flicker. I tried downloading and booting from an ubuntu
>> live cd and didn't have any luck getting a connection. And both of my
>> machines are using the same NIC (at least according to lspci), and
>> should be at roughly the same version of the applicable software -- I
>> updated my laptop an hour, at most, before I updated my desktop.
>
> Did you try running dhcpcd manually after boot? I'm new to netcfg and
> thought it's normal behavior that I have to launch dhcpcd afterwards..
>

Well, I was trying to set up a static connection, so dhcpcd shouldn't be 
needed. But I've set up dhcp connections before with netcfg that launch 
dhcpcd connections automatically. Maybe you could post your config (in a 
new thread, preferably, so as not to hijack this one).