Realtek RTL8168B Problem
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:56 pm
Hello, I just installed Linux Mint 14 64 Bit on my desktop and am having trouble getting my Realtek network adapter (details included in the attached image) to connect to my network. Whenever it tries to connect I receive a notification saying "Activation of network connection failed". When this happened originally I followed the steps I found in another thread to download and install a different set of drivers from Realtek found here:http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/dow ... wnTypeID=3 but this was not able to solve the problem.
The Network area of the System Information program shows that (albeit a very small amount of) traffic has been sent and received from the device (about 1/10th of a MiB in each direction) but I am unable to even ping my router. Since the dmesg errors all seemed to revolve around IPv6 issues I set that to "Ignore" in my network settings but the problem still persists.
Here is the output of lsmod (r8168 is near the bottom):
and the relevant snippets from dmesg:
Thank you very much for your help! If I need to provide any more information please let me know!
-Matt
The Network area of the System Information program shows that (albeit a very small amount of) traffic has been sent and received from the device (about 1/10th of a MiB in each direction) but I am unable to even ping my router. Since the dmesg errors all seemed to revolve around IPv6 issues I set that to "Ignore" in my network settings but the problem still persists.
Here is the output of lsmod (r8168 is near the bottom):
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Module Size Used by
uas 17844 0
usb_storage 48838 1
bnep 18140 2
rfcomm 46619 12
parport_pc 32688 0
ppdev 17073 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 32007 1
coretemp 13400 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 77876 1
kvm_intel 132759 0
kvm 414070 1 kvm_intel
lp 17759 0
microcode 22803 0
snd_hda_intel 33491 5
snd_hda_codec 134212 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
serio_raw 13215 0
snd_pcm 96580 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
b43 369753 0
mac80211 539908 1 b43
parport 46345 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
cfg80211 206566 2 b43,mac80211
bcma 35656 1 b43
ssb_hcd 12869 0
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_rawmidi 30512 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61521 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
nouveau 895609 2
snd_timer 29425 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
lpc_ich 17061 0
mac_hid 13205 0
ttm 83595 1 nouveau
btusb 18334 0
drm_kms_helper 46784 1 nouveau
bluetooth 209199 22 bnep,rfcomm,btusb
snd 78734 20 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
drm 275528 4 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i7core_edac 23571 0
soundcore 15047 1 snd
i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 12979 1 nouveau
snd_page_alloc 18484 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
video 19335 1 nouveau
edac_core 52451 3 i7core_edac
wmi 19070 2 nouveau,mxm_wmi
hid_generic 12493 0
firewire_ohci 40401 0
usbhid 46947 0
firewire_core 64368 1 firewire_ohci
hid 100366 2 hid_generic,usbhid
crc_itu_t 12707 1 firewire_core
ssb 52036 2 b43,ssb_hcd
r8168 248516 0
pata_jmicron 12747 0
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[ 1.706310] eth%d: RTL8168C/8111C at 0xffffc9001179c000, 00:1f:bc:00:ca:4e, IRQ 44
[ 1.731301] eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8168C/8111C'.
[ 1.732391] eth%d: RTL8168C/8111C at 0xffffc9001179e000, 00:1f:bc:00:ca:4f, IRQ 45
[ 1.757407] eth1: Identified chip type is 'RTL8168C/8111C'.
[ 18.607988] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 18.607993] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 20.070279] r8168: eth0: link down
[ 20.070915] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 20.071911] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 20.095147] r8168: eth1: link down
[ 20.095819] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 20.096015] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 21.773455] r8168: eth1: link up
[ 21.774085] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[ 22.093928] r8168: eth1: link up
-Matt