With newer Windows driver versions this option is not available anymore, instead there is an option 'Shutdown Wake On Lan'. This prevents the Windows driver to disable the card.

You enable 'Wake-on-lan after shutdown.' in the Windows device manager. This seems to reset the card and the Linux driver work until you boot Windows again. You power down the machine completely and unplug the power supply for a few seconds (about 10 will do).

Here are four workarounds for this issue: R8169 driver does not know how to turn on the NIC from this disabled state, therefor the device will not respond, even if the driver loads and reports that the device is up. The Realtek Windows driver disables the NIC at Windows shutdown time.

You are running dual boot Windows and Linux on your machine. In yast2 the interface is said 'disconnected'. You are running a Realtek 8168, 8169, 8101 or 8111 chipset based card but the network doesn't work, but the driver reports that the interface is up and running.ĭHCP never return an IP.

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