I come to youse oh smart ones as I am unable to go any further in understanding the issue. Probably distro specific but unsure.
As you can see below I am using realtek RTL8111E. Driver r8169 crapped out too many times so installed r8168 as per guidance on some other forums and blacklisted r8169. Worked okish for a while. This morning made an upgrade (Rolling Tumbleweed) and that screw up my ethernet. Apparently it removed the r8168 (see below) and, it seems, I have to use r8169. Its blacklisted and don't want to use it anyways.
Why removing r8168. Doing a modprobe tells me it does not even exist anymore. I had been using it prior the update.. Why make my life so difficult
Just wanted to add that r8168 is installed as per OpenSuse Software Management
As you can see below I am using realtek RTL8111E. Driver r8169 crapped out too many times so installed r8168 as per guidance on some other forums and blacklisted r8169. Worked okish for a while. This morning made an upgrade (Rolling Tumbleweed) and that screw up my ethernet. Apparently it removed the r8168 (see below) and, it seems, I have to use r8169. Its blacklisted and don't want to use it anyways.
Why removing r8168. Doing a modprobe tells me it does not even exist anymore. I had been using it prior the update.. Why make my life so difficult
Just wanted to add that r8168 is installed as per OpenSuse Software Management
Code:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
DeviceName: Realtek RTL8111E Ethernet LOM
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:38fa]
Kernel modules: r8169
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]
Code:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
DeviceName: Realtek RTL8111E Ethernet LOM
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 38fa
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 4
IOMMU group: 11
Region 0: I/O ports at 2000 [disabled] [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at c2704000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Region 4: Memory at c2700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: r8169
Code:
modprobe: FATAL: Module r8168 not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.11-1-default