FYI: RTL8111/8168 works under 13.04 (problems with 12.10)

[sanderj]

FYI / For The Record:

The

25:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

works automatigally under Ubuntu 13.04 (tested with 64-bit).

Relevant messages from dmesg:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep -i eth | grep -vi ipv6 | grep -vi bluetooth
[    5.937789] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[    5.938277] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: RTL8168e/8111e at 0xffffc9000067e000, 2c:41:38:09:9c:bc, XID 0c200000 IRQ 45
[    5.938340] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
[   25.536183] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: link down
[   25.536197] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: link down
[   27.726757] r8169 0000:25:00.0 eth0: link up
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

I get linespeed on my 300/300 Mbps Internet connection:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ wget -4 http://ftp.belnet.be/ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso -O /dev/null
--2013-04-19 17:53:43--  http://ftp.belnet.be/ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso
Resolving ftp.belnet.be (ftp.belnet.be)... 193.190.67.98
Connecting to ftp.belnet.be (ftp.belnet.be)|193.190.67.98|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 726970368 (693M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

10% [===>                                   ] 76,738,837  30.3MB/s             
47% [=================>                     ] 346,957,357 35.1MB/s  eta 13s    
100%[======================================>] 726,970,368 37.9MB/s   in 22s    

2013-04-19 17:54:05 (31.0 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [726970368/726970368]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

With 12.10 the GigE interface did not work, and I got a lot of ugly info in dmesg.

EDIT:

sander@hapee:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:25:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 06
       serial: 2c:41:38:09:9c:bc
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw ip=192.168.0.100 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:45 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d4404000-d4404fff memory:d4400000-d4403fff
sander@hapee:~$

and:

sander@hapee:~$ lsmod | grep r8
r8169                  67446  0 
sander@hapee:~$

[rtalcott]

FYI.... just installed 13.04...clean new install on a working 12.04 machine (8111/8168) and and I have no wired connection...any clues on how to go about finding out why?

[cariboo]

FYI.... just installed 13.04...clean new install on a working 12.04 machine (8111/8168) and and I have no wired connection...any clues on how to go about finding out why?

Check to see if the driver is loaded using either:

lsmod | grep r8

or

lshw -C network

the first command will tell you if the driver is loaded, and the second command will give all the information about your network device, including what driver it is using.

[rtalcott]

First...Thank You for the response...I should know how to do this tuff by now but I guess I don't...I should learn something now (I hope!)

rtalcott@evga:~$ lsmod | grep r8
r8712u 189948 0
r8169 68680 0

r8712u is the usb wireless I have connected. so it looks like the r8168 driver is not there and it's not on my 12.04 installs on hardware that have a RTL8111/8168B hardware.

sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1f:bc:03:b9:67
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:0 ioport:8c00(size=256) memory:fd8ff000-fd8fffff memory:fd7f0000-fd7fffff memory:fd700000-fd71ffff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2:3.4.4
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1a:ef:1b:ee:d3
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8712u ip=192.168.1.117 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

I see *-network disabled....not a good sign and this is the result of a clean install....

A kick in the correct direction would be greatly appreciated!
rt

[sanderj]

My lshw at capabilities says "firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw". Yours doesn't.

I checked:

sander@hapee:~$ locate rtl8168e-2.fw
/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw

sander@hapee:~$ dpkg -S rtl8168e-2.fw
linux-firmware: /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
sander@hapee:~$

... so can you run that command?

[rtalcott]

Looks like I get your result..


rtalcott@evga:~$ locate rtl8168e-2.fw
/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
rtalcott@evga:~$ dpkg -S rtl8168e-2.fw
linux-firmware: /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw

[sanderj]

Looks like I get your result..


rtalcott@evga:~$ locate rtl8168e-2.fw
/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
rtalcott@evga:~$ dpkg -S rtl8168e-2.fw
linux-firmware: /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw

... so why isn't it loaded? I have no idea. You could grep /var/log/* for 'firmware' and 'rtl'. Maybe that reveals something?

[rtalcott]

Maybe later today I'll try to boot a livecd of 12.04 and see if I have the wired network connection.

[rtalcott]

13.04 gives me this:
sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

12.04 this:
lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

8168 vs. 8168B...any significance here?

[rtalcott]

I don't see anything...I would suspect that I did something stupid but this is a clean standard install...and I let it go and do its thing....nothing but standard input from me. I may have to install an Ethernet card...