This is about a problem with the wifi connection on a fresh install of Manjaro KDE Plasma with kernel 5.13. On a fresh install of Manjaro KDE on this Thinkpad T14 Gen 2, there was no wifi connection option. My
inxi -N
output is
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
Device-2: Realtek driver: N/A
Device-3: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
lspci -vv | egrep "r8"
output is
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0e)
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169, r8168
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169, r8168
Finally, sudo dmesg | egrep "r8"
gives
[ 0.038866] percpu: Embedded 61 pages/cpu s212992 r8192 d28672 u262144
[ 0.038870] pcpu-alloc: s212992 r8192 d28672 u262144 alloc=1*2097152
[ 1.429863] r8169 0000:02:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[ 1.455681] libphy: r8169: probed
[ 1.455874] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: RTL8168ep/8111ep, 84:a9:38:ba:61:df, XID 502, IRQ 84
[ 1.455879] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9194 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
[ 1.455926] r8169 0000:05:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[ 1.455935] r8169 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[ 1.470856] libphy: r8169: probed
[ 1.471036] r8169 0000:05:00.0 eth1: RTL8168h/8111h, 84:a9:38:ba:61:de, XID 541, IRQ 86
[ 1.471040] r8169 0000:05:00.0 eth1: jumbo features [frames: 9194 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
[ 1.547795] r8168: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 1.563629] r8168: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 2.076277] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0f0: renamed from eth0
[ 2.096872] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: renamed from eth1
[ 2.152417] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-200:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-200:00, irq=MAC)
[ 2.274528] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0f0: Link is Down
[ 2.305800] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-500:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-500:00, irq=MAC)
[ 2.495873] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Down
The ISO file I flashed came with a 5.13 kernel but I upgraded it to a 5.14 and then 5.15. I am currently using USB tethering to get Internet access on this device.
So far I have tried :
- Blacklisting the r8169 driver and using r8168 and doing
mkinitcpio -p linux515
This didn’t work. - Booting into Fedora on a live disk. Even this couldn’t pick up the driver
- Changing to an LTS kernel (5.10) and rebooting.
The machine initially had Windows on it and I managed to use wifi so I am quite sure it is not some hardware issue.
Could someone please point out a solution ? Thanks in advance.