[arch-general] Realtek 8111/8168/8411 Blues - cannot get dhcpcd address (link UP)

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
>   As a continuation of the disc controller failure/system rebuild, I have
> the new box built and a pair of fresh drives waiting for a new Arch install.
> This motherboard has the Realtek 8111/8168/8411 chipset. (Gigabyte
> GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard).
>
>   I am booting with the latest install medium which boots fine in legacy or
> EUFI mode. No matter what I do, I cannot get an IPv4 address.

Check this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=200514 is
it what you see?

What happens if you downgrade to dhcpcd-6.9.0 ?


> I have read:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Realtek_no_link_.2F_WOL_problem
>
> (that's not the problem, link light is on, activity indicator is flashing,
> and link is reported 'Up' by 'ip link')
>
>   I have read:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Realtek_RTL8111.2F8168B
>
>  - installed (pacman -U r8168-8.040.00-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz)
>  - blacklisted r8169
>  - loaded r8168
>  - confirmed the NIC is using r8168 w/lspci -v
>  - systemctl restart dhcpcd (many times)
>  - systemctl status dhcpcd reports
>       no IPv6 Routers
>       no IPv4 Leases
>       request timeout
>
> It's not the cable or my dhcpd server, I boot the box with the failed disc
> controller, and it is assigned an address just fine. (same cable)
>
> I'm stuck, looking at the log on my dhcp server, the requests are never
> seen. It's like the card isn't sending, but the link light is fine and the
> activity light on the NIC is flashes when it sees traffic?
>
> What else can I try?
>
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.