[arch-general] r8169: transmit queue 0 timed out - dying hardware?

[Nicolás Adamo]

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 at 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.
>


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Nicolás Adamo