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

[Aaron Laws]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:34 PM, David C. Rankin <
drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Has anyone ever had a board or an install where the network was just
> flaky or dead for multiple NICs? Thoughts?
>
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>

Eek, sorry you're having so much trouble. I may have already said this, but
I'll give it another go. I'm using the same board (GA-990FXA-UD3) with the
same ethernet card. I decided the onboard NIC was trash, so I installed a
PCI ethernet card, installed arch, and started using it. Later, I went back
to troubleshoot the NIC, and found that if I sudo pacman -Syu r8168; echo
'blacklist r8169' > /etc/modprobe.d/r8169_blacklist.conf; reboot;
everything went okay, and no need for PCI card.

I'm afraid that beyond that, I don't think I can help.

Aaron