Not exactly your use case (I run Slackware64-14.2 and the 4.4 kernel), but my network hardware looks similar in lspci:

I could not make it work with stock r8169 driver until I was suggested in this forum to use r8168 from SBo. I don't know if this works in -current with a newer kernel, hopefully a -current user can provide more feedback, because this will be relevant for 15.0.

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i've testet this and it doesn't work.

Yes. Same messages here.

I'll test some things later.

Modinfo for both realtek & r8169 - to me everything looks normal, but LAN (eth0) device not found....I'm out of my depth here

bash-5.0# modinfo realtek
filename: /lib/modules/5.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/phy/realtek.ko
license: GPL
author: Johnson Leung
description: Realtek PHY driver
alias: mdio:0000000000011100110010??????????
depends: libphy
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: realtek
vermagic: 5.4.31 SMP mod_unload


bash-5.0# modinfo r8169
filename: /lib/modules/5.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8125a-3.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8106e-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8411-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8411-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8402-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
license: GPL
softdep: pre: realtek
description: RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver
author: Realtek and the Linux r8169 crew <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
alias: pci:v000010ECd00003000sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008125sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00000001d00008168sv*sd00002410bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001737d00001032sv*sd00000024bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000016ECd00000116sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001259d0000C107sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001186d00004302sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001186d00004300sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001186d00004300sv00001186sd00004B10bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008169sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010FFd00008168sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008168sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008167sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008161sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008136sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008129sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00002600sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00002502sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends: libphy
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: r8169
vermagic: 5.4.31 SMP mod_unload
parm: debugebug verbosity level (0=none, ..., 16=all) (int)

Can you post the output of the following? (Please use [code][/code] tags for proper spacing)

bash-5.0# lspci -k | grep -iA3 net
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 07)
DeviceName: Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
Kernel modules: r8169
06:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
DeviceName: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 802.11bgn WiFi Adapter
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k


bash-5.0# ifconfig -a
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 1 bytes 197 (197.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1 bytes 197 (197.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.71 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::5f3c:9915:5d2b:1b53 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
inet6 2001:569:7e17:7200:d188:fbd5:a221:4380 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
ether 28:e3:47:18:10:94 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 2396651 bytes 3511384220 (3.2 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 693317 bytes 75949142 (72.4 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

Ok. I found the problem.

It's this commit in 5.4.29
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...d869c6cfad2023

I reverted this commit and made a new kernel 5.4.31 with the Slackware config[1] and now eth0 works again out of the box.


[1] ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...ernels/huge.s/



PS: In an earlier post i said, i upgraded from 5.4.29 to 5.4.31, but is was from 5.4.27.

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That's all Greek to me : )

I had the same problem. A have Dell notebook with

I found a solution in:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1195...ealtek-rtl8111

And it works pretty much OK. I will avoid updating the kernel in current until this is all fixed.

5.4.32 no change.

What's the easiest way to report this problem?

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5.4.32 fixed the Wired issue, but eth0 can not be found - eth1 works now - so I'm not sure what to make of that.

Weird eh?

Hi, you can try to remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules then reboot. Your ethernet card should be eth0.

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BOOM! Thank you, do you know how that file gets created?

This file is created by evdev when booting slackware.
I delete this file in my rc.local.

Thanks, seems like an odd instruction to me. I'll assume it's and "if this" "do this" kind of thing.

It should probably be noted that you should only need to setup automatic deleting if you notice it is continually screwing up your device names.

The purpose of the file is to ensure if you have multiple network devices that they will always remain the same. It saves the hardware/MAC address of the device and is supposed to make sure that the same device gets the same designation (eth0, eth1, wlan0, etc) next time you boot up. For most people, this file works great, but there are probably people who might have problems with it.