Dragon RTL8125BG Ethernet port not working

So I bought a new ASRock B550 Extreme4 that has this ethernet port “Dragon RTL8125BG” which is Dragon 2.5G

Does not work whatsoever.

Hi JoeyJoeJoe26,

Thanks for sharing it does not work, but I guess your asking if there is a solution?
for this we need a little more info.

Ok this is what i got.

System:
  Kernel: 5.8.11-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC 
  driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2011 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B550 Extreme4 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.20 date: 08/13/2020 
Battery:
  Device-1: sony_controller_battery_a4:ae:12:3e:ed:4d model: N/A serial: N/A 
  charge: N/A status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: N/A microcode: 8701021 
  L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 124630 
  Speed: 3594 MHz min/max: 2200/3900 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 3593 2: 2053 3: 2049 4: 2047 5: 2196 6: 2190 7: 2191 8: 2189 9: 2055 
  10: 2052 11: 2197 12: 2196 13: 2196 14: 2194 15: 3593 16: 2047 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] 
  vendor: Sapphire Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:731f 
  Display: x11 server: X-Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu 
  FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3440x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 910x381mm (35.8x15.0") 
  s-diag: 987mm (38.8") 
  Monitor-1: DisplayPort-1 res: 3440x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 
  size: 798x335mm (31.4x13.2") diag: 865mm (34.1") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.38.0 5.8.11-1-MANJARO 
  LLVM 10.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 0a:00.1 chip ID: 1002:ab38 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 0c:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 
  Device-3: Sony DualShock 4 [CUH-ZCT2x] type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,sony,usbhid bus ID: 1-7.4:6 chip ID: 054c:09cc 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.11-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASRock driver: N/A modules: r8169 
  port: f000 bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8125 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.76 TiB used: 110.0 MiB (0.0%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> 
  rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> 
  rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: PNY model: USB 3.0 FD size: 29.53 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP 
  scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 23.47 GiB used: 110.0 MiB (0.5%) fs: overlay 
  source: ERR-102 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 54 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 320 Uptime: 4m Memory: 31.29 GiB used: 923.5 MiB (2.9%) 
  Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1201 lib: 318 
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: yakuake inxi: 3.1.05

Seems there is no driver loaded.

you could try

sudo insmod /usr/lib/modules/5.8.11-1-MANJARO/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko.xz

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it says “could not insert, file exists”

Please try:

sudo mhwd -i pci network-r8168
sudo modprobe -r r8169
sudo modprobe r8168

nothing happens, it just says that the modure is not in directory im running manjaro on a live thumb drive at the moment.

Oke the r8169 should support this card (see: here ) could be that it also needs a the firmware file for that you could try.

pamac build realtek-firmware

should provide the correct firmware.

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thanks

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:+1:

Got it :slight_smile:

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oh, yeah it did, thank you!

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