Ethernet adapters driver issue

phriek

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Dear community,

I'm stuck getting Proxmox running on my N100 mini-pc.
The graphical installation of 8.1-2 only detects the wifi card, not the two ethernet devices. I tried to get an internet connection with the wifi installation (tried static IP and dhcp) but this also didn't worked for me.

lspci -v show the following:

Code:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 2b) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
Hemory at 80a04000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Hemory at B0a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
Capabilities: [be] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
Capabilities: [170] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [178] L1 PM Substates
Kernel modules: r8169


02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 2b)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 18
1/0 ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at 80904000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at 80900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K)
Capabilitles: [40] Power Hanagement version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
Capabilities: [be] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
Capabilities: [170] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [178] L1 PM Substates
Kernel modules: r8169

It looks like there is no "kernel driver in use", unlike the other devices that are listed.

ip a looks like this:

Code:
1: 10: <LOOPBACK, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default glen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6:: 1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

2: wlo1: <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default glen 1000
link/ether 70:cd:0d:89:69:12 brd ff ff ff:ff:ff:ff
altname wlp0s20f3
inet 192.168.1.200/24 scope global wlo1
valid_lft. forever preferred_lft forever

How do I get the ethernet driver on the computer without internet? Is it possible to add a driver to the bootable USB stick, which I created from the image?

Thanks alot!
 
Oh, you're right, this looks very similar. Hope we find a solution for it.
So after some research, I think Im gonna buy a usb to ethernet adapter and connect to the internet that way. Then install the R8168 drivers and return the adapter. I believe that will work, if anyone knows more on this topic and can direct us that would be great.
 
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I'm trying to get my wifi to work so I can download the required r8168 drivers. But I just can't get it configured. Could someone please give me a snippet of the /etc/network/interfaces file that I can use to get my wifi running without NAT and without vmbr0?

No matter what I try, I can't get a ping on my gateway 192.168.1.2

Thanks alot!
 
I'm trying to get my wifi to work so I can download the required r8168 drivers. But I just can't get it configured. Could someone please give me a snippet of the /etc/network/interfaces file that I can use to get my wifi running without NAT and without vmbr0?
Maybe have a look at the Wiki: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/WLAN Or search the forum: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/using-wifi-instead-of-ethernet.56691/
No matter what I try, I can't get a ping on my gateway 192.168.1.2
It's not clear to me what you tried and/or already setup properly, sorry.
 
I got my wifi running now by installing "wpasupplicant" and it's dependencies from a mounted usb stick.

Installed new Linux Kernel 6.8 // no difference, network devices still hasn't the driver in use
Installing r8168-dkms_8.052.01-1_all.deb // didn't help either.

Any suggestions?
 
Ok, i think i figured out what is happening

demsg | grep8169

r8169 9999:01:00.0: error - ENODEV: unknown chip XID 6c0, contact r8169 maintainers (see MAINTAINERS file)

Google for 6c0 shows a kernel mailinglst, error is pretty new and will be fixed in kernel 6.10

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ac3f.../T/#r9fa05f4a0382091c96b90aa02ca8485bf2309a0a
Have you tried the new driver? 8.053.00
https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=584
If you succeed please tell me how you did it?
Also how did you get access to wifi. No matter what I try I cannot. You mentioned wpa supplicant. How to use that. Sorry I’m a newbie.
 

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