12.04 wired network doesn't work RTL8111/8168B

Question

its a fresh 12.04 install 64bits. wifi works fine, wired stays off with cable connected and network-manager shows as if cable is disconnected. Turning off networking lights up my network-cards leds, turning networking on shuts off the leds and no communication is possible.

I already tried, turning off the network-manager (sudo service network-manager stop) and setting up my eth0 manually, as soon as I switch off the network-manager my leds light up, but after setting up manually eth0 (sudo ifconfig eth0 10.2.10.114 netmask 255.255.0.0 up) the leds turn off again. I am still dual booting with 10.04 where I have no issues at all, leaving the cable connected all time to my notebook and a switch.

Here is some hardware info: lshw:

*-network
            description: Ethernet interface
            product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
            vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
            physical id: 0
            bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
            logical name: eth0
            version: 03
            serial: c8:0a:a9:d7:05:97
            size: 10Mbit/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=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
            resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff memory:f0010000-f001ffff

lspci:

    02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)

ifconfig eth0:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr c8:0a:a9:d7:05:97  
      inet addr:10.2.10.114  Bcast:10.2.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
      UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
      RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
      Interrupt:42 Base address:0xc000 

cat /etc/network/interfaces: (already tried here with and w/o eth0)

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback

cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

 [main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
dns=dnsmasq

[ifupdown]
managed=false

Any help is welcome ;) Laket

Solution 1

Reaktek: http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2

Solution 2

Update - My issue was unrelated to the orginal author's. The instructions I provided below disabled Network Manager. This circumvents dnsmasq, which had been inaccessable due to iptables blocking localhost-to-localhost UDP traffic.

Is this a DNS issue? Can you ping 72.14.204.101 but get nothing from host google.com?

Edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Then:

$ sudo ifdown eth0
$ sudo ifup eth0

This happened to me after upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04. For some reason that last line of the interfaces file had been commented out.

Solution 3

I solved this problem with a little of magic :)

r8169 seems not to work if it's eth0...but it works if it's eth1 (don't ask me why...don't know)

So you have to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file. You'll find something like this:

PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0 (e1000e) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1c:c0:af:60:c5", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

let's change last character in ATTR(address) content (e.g.: :c5" becomes :c6":

PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0 (e1000e) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1c:c0:af:60:c6", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

Now reboot your computer, when system comes up, your net card will be eth1 :)

Solution 4

I had the same problem. I solved it by adding (the graphical way) a new network connection, that automatically connects with "Automatic DHCP" as the setting. It seems that this default had been removed?!

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Comments

[laket]

thanks JohnNKing, I don't really know what it was, was not an dns issue since the interface was going down on the up request and on up was going down. I didn't see any updates but after restarting my notebook 10 times, the interface is working again.

[John King]

Opps, sorry; I think I misread the question. I'm glad it's working for you now.

[John King]

Any chance this was a driver issue? There are some similarities with: superuser.com/questions/290822/…

[Eliah Kagan]

Since that file could be anything, do you have a link to the driver on the Realtek website? (Or is it no longer available?) I'm not asking you to remove this link, but if you could also provide more information about where you got it, I think that might be helpful.

[nilsonneto]

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.

[Dana Benson]

This worked for me except I just changed the name from eth0 to eth1. Weird.

[akashrajkn]

Apparently many people are facing the similar problem with r8169 driver. This driver r8168 works like a charm