6.12 can't recongize my onboard rlt8125 card

[xyzeratul]

Just upgrade from 6.11.5 to 6.12, I have a Intel i350 T2 card install and also has an onboard rlt 8125 card, all working fine in 6.11.5, in system devices, it show all 3 nic, but in network settings, only the 2 nic from Intel i350 T2 card show up as eth0, 1.

 

a bit more detail:

 

My unraid manage port is one of the nic on that i350 T2 card, the onboard 2.5G nic port I use to directly connect to my PC for faster file transfer.

 

So without the 2.5G nic showing up in the network setting, my direct drive mapping connecting to my PC is gone, but I can still mange my unraid server with local lan.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 17, 2023 by xyzeratul

[MAM59]

The driver for the 8125 card is left out of the kernel / base system in 6.12

 

You can find and install it under Apps. Search for "RTL8152/3/4/6 USB Drivers" from ICH777's Repository.

(Yeah, you have it onboard, but it is usually a very cheap and very bad USB "card")

The info says you may have to reboot twice to bring it to work, dunno why.

 

 

[JorgeB]

rtl8125 should work with the rtl8169 driver, please post diags from v6.12.0

[xyzeratul]

2 hours ago, MAM59 said:

The driver for the 8125 card is left out of the kernel / base system in 6.12

 

You can find and install it under Apps. Search for "RTL8152/3/4/6 USB Drivers" from ICH777's Repository.

(Yeah, you have it onboard, but it is usually a very cheap and very bad USB "card")

The info says you may have to reboot twice to bring it to work, dunno why.

 

 

 

I tried this, after reboot the onboard nic still not showing up in network setting, but I didn't reboot twice

 

edit:

 

reboot twice, still the nic not showing up

Edited June 17, 2023 by xyzeratul

[xyzeratul]

41 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

rtl8125 should work with the rtl8169 driver, please post diags from v6.12.0

I went back to 6.11.5, will try upgrade again tonight to get diags

[xyzeratul]

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

rtl8125 should work with the rtl8169 driver, please post diags from v6.12.0

 

here is the diags, not install the driver app as MAM59 mentioned

 

185409-diagnostics-20230617-1937.zip

[JorgeB]

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:8125] (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [1462:7c82]
    Kernel modules: r8169

 

The module is there but it's not loading the driver, I have one of these NICs, let me test with v6.12.0 and I'll get back to you in a couple of hours.

[MAM59]

57 minutes ago, xyzeratul said:

not install the driver app as MAM59 mentioned

Yeah sorry, I was wrong. I mixed the numbers, instead of 8125 I have read 8152. So forget my driver thing, next time I should insert more coffee before reading and posting 🤪

[xyzeratul]

1 minute ago, MAM59 said:

Yeah sorry, I was wrong. I mixed the numbers, instead of 8125 I have read 8152. So forget my driver thing, next time I should insert more coffee before reading and posting 🤪

nvm, this did nothing on my nas, I'll just uninstall it.

 

 

[JorgeB]

Still working for me with v6.12.0:

 

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:8125] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:0123]
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    Kernel modules: r8169

 

I see mine is rev 05 while yours is rev 04, not sure if that should make any difference, in the syslog you posted there's nothing about the r8169 driver, so it's not an initialization issue, looks more like it's not even trying to load the driver.

[xyzeratul]

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Still working for me with v6.12.0:

 

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:8125] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:0123]
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    Kernel modules: r8169

 

I see mine is rev 05 while yours is rev 04, not sure if that should make any difference, in the syslog you posted there's nothing about the r8169 driver, so it's not an initialization issue, looks more like it's not even trying to load the driver.

When I was on 6.11.5, I used this patch:

 

but mainly for put i350 T2 in another group so I can bind one of it to my VM, not sure it's related or not.

 

I check my network.cfg file, the old settings are still there:

# Generated settings:
IFNAME[0]="eth0"
DHCP_KEEPRESOLV="yes"
DNS_SERVER1="1.1.1.1"
DNS_SERVER2="8.8.8.8"
DNS_SERVER3="114.114.114.114"
DHCP6_KEEPRESOLV="no"
DESCRIPTION[0]="Onboard"
PROTOCOL[0]="ipv4"
USE_DHCP[0]="no"
IPADDR[0]="192.168.1.200"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
GATEWAY[0]="192.168.1.1"
METRIC[0]="1"
USE_DHCP6[0]="yes"
IFNAME[1]="eth1"
PROTOCOL[1]="ipv4"
METRIC[1]="1"
MTU[1]="1500"
IFNAME[2]="eth2"
DESCRIPTION[2]="Onboard 2.5G"
PROTOCOL[2]="ipv4"
USE_DHCP[2]="no"
IPADDR[2]="10.10.10.1"
NETMASK[2]="255.255.255.0"
MTU[2]="9000"
SYSNICS="3"

 

 

 

[JorgeB]

25 minutes ago, xyzeratul said:

When I was on 6.11.5, I used this patch:

Does it still in v6.11.5 without the patch?

[xyzeratul]

17 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Does it still in v6.11.5 without the patch?

Yes, this patch only replace these file:

 

I think after upgrading to 6.12, these will also be replaced, so I didn't remove them.

[JorgeB]

So you're still using the patch with v6.12? It probably won't work, if yes try without it.

[xyzeratul]

5 hours ago, JorgeB said:

So you're still using the patch with v6.12? It probably won't work, if yes try without it.

no, I mean I didn't uninstall the patch before upgrade, nor re-install it after the upgrade.

[xyzeratul]

I did a clean install and the onborad nic show up in network settings, so that means my old config must have something mess up.

 

edit:

 

found it, in /config/modprobe.d there is a config file blacklist the 8169 driver, I think it's leftover from the patch, delete it and the nic is back

Edited June 18, 2023 by xyzeratul