Network does't work on mobo GA-970A-DS3P (LAN r8169)

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agk · Post by **agk** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 11:04 am

Hello.

I can't get LAN work on new motherboard GA-970A-DS3P.
I've booted from minimal-amd64 and livecd-amd64 - the same problems.

But when I booted from minimal-x32 the LAN was working properly.
I made a diagnostic script to compare those system states and saw following differences:

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NETDEV WATCHDOG: enp3s0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out
....
[  438.846403] Modules linked in: 
[  438.846554] Call Trace:
[  438.846556]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff813af400>] ? dev_watchdog+0xa6/0x1ec
[  438.846568]  [<ffffffff81031eef>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0x8c
[  438.846573]  [<ffffffff81031f9b>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x45/0x4a
[  438.846579]  [<ffffffff813af4ab>] ? dev_watchdog+0x151/0x1ec
[  438.846583]  [<ffffffff81043b15>] ? __queue_work+0x256/0x256
[  438.846588]  [<ffffffff813af35a>] ? pfifo_fast_dequeue+0xb8/0xb8
[  438.846593]  [<ffffffff8103b687>] ? call_timer_fn.isra.34+0x1d/0x73
[  438.846598]  [<ffffffff8103b837>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x15a/0x1a0
[  438.846611]  [<ffffffff8104ae50>] ? hrtimer_run_queues+0xec/0x1cc
[  438.846613]  [<ffffffff81037788>] ? __do_softirq+0x9c/0x145
[  438.846615]  [<ffffffff8142f29c>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[  438.846617]  [<ffffffff8100ab52>] ? do_softirq+0x3c/0x7a
[  438.846618]  [<ffffffff81037907>] ? irq_exit+0x41/0x60
[  438.846620]  [<ffffffff81022e43>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x83/0x91
[  438.846622]  [<ffffffff8142eb5d>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
[  438.846622]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff813756b6>] ? cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x3b/0x71
[  438.846626]  [<ffffffff813756af>] ? cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x34/0x71
[  438.846628]  [<ffffffff81375427>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xc/0x31
[  438.846630]  [<ffffffff813761a1>] ? ladder_select_state+0x2e/0x179
[  438.846631]  [<ffffffff81375425>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xa/0x31
[  438.846633]  [<ffffffff813754ef>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0xa3/0xc3
[  438.846634]  [<ffffffff8101023e>] ? cpu_idle+0x52/0x96
[  438.846635] ---[ end trace 5fd89abb0545b575 ]---
[  438.888570] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: link up

More details:

script: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34678857/dump_hw.sh

working LAN (x32): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/346 ... 2.dump.txt
broken LAN (amd64): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/346 ... 4.dump.txt

Please help me to setup amd64 system.

DONAHUE · Post by **DONAHUE** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:38 pm

Use http://www.sysresccd.org/Download instead of minimal cd.

agk · Post by **agk** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:09 pm

Does not work too.

Jaglover · Post by **Jaglover** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:20 pm

You may want to try r8168 driver with your card.

DONAHUE · Post by **DONAHUE** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:42 pm

r8168 may also not work, but worth a try.
I have an 8168/8111 where neither works. Someday I may have to try ndiswrapper just for fun. sad thing is earlier kernels used to run either one.

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:36 pm

I have a couple Gigabyte boards, haven't had too much of a problem with ethernet:
EP43-UD3L (running x86_64 Linux 3.9.2-stock)

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04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Motherboard
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169

G31MX-S2 (despite it says it's an AMD board, running x86 Linux 3.5.7-gentoo)

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01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-MA69G-S3H Motherboard
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169

Z68AP-D3 (running x86_64 Linux 3.9.2-stock)

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03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Motherboard
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169

Hmm... Don't know what's going wrong here... Most of the time these realteks seem to just work.

marmoras · Post by **marmoras** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:49 pm

I have gay boards and through many kernels with no problem. I recall in some other distro, I think fedora, it was requesting firmware. In all my gentoos I install linux-firmware package on the base system, so I don't know if it helps to install this package