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Re: RTL 8169 driver

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Hi,

(see below for my comment/question)

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:45:10PM -0300, Werner Horsch wrote:
> Package linux-headers-4.19.0-6-amd64
> 
> I'm writing to you after looking for days on a solution to a boot error I'm
> experiencing with the ethernet board on two machines, both have the same
> board provider. Both ran Mint in the past with no issues at all
> 
> [ [0;1;31mFAILED [0m] Failed to start [0;1;39mRaise network interfaces [0m.
> See 'systemctl status networking.service' for details.
> 
> I enabled the use of nonfree repositories so as to get RTL drivers, tried
> several things out with no success at all. I inspect a 3rd box which has
> the same RTL board but runs LinuxMint flawless, the only difference I could
> see is that has a different kernel
> 
> Here some outputs that may help
> werner@G42 ~ $ lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet'
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E
> PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
> 
> $ sudo journalctl -xe
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> -- 
> -- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit networking.service has exited.
> -- 
> -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
> Oct 01 22:13:52 G42 systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result
> 'exit-cod
> -- Subject: Unit failed
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> -- 
> -- The unit networking.service has entered the 'failed' state with result
> 'exit-
> Oct 01 22:13:52 G42 systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
> -- Subject: A start job for unit networking.service has failed
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> 
> 
> $ sudo systemctl status networking.service
> ● networking.service - Raise network interfaces
> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor
> prese
> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-10-01 22:17:42 -03; 29s
> ago
> Docs: man:interfaces(5)
> Process: 1904 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited,
> status=
> Main PID: 1904 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces...
> Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 ifup[1904]: Cannot find device "eth0"
> Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 ifup[1904]: ifup: failed to bring up eth0
> Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited,
> code=ex
> Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result
> 'exit-cod
> Oct 01 22:17:42 G42 systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
> 
> I appreciate any advice

on a freshly installed system I would not expect any network device
being named 'eth*'.  Is your /etc/network/interfaces (or corresponding)
auto-generated?  It might give a clue if you would forward the output of
'ip link'.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

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RTL 8169 driver Werner Horsch <werner.horsch@gmail.com> - 2019-10-04 03:10 +0200
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