From: Ivan Popovych <ivan@ipvych.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: USB Ethernet dongle stops working after reconnect
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:16:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xxuf4ei.fsf@ipvych.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5n6f4s7.fsf@ipvych.com>
Ivan Popovych <ivan@ipvych.com> writes:
> Hi, I have an unused laptop that I want to try experimenting with
> Guix on. Since builtin network controller uses nonfree firmware to connect
> to it to network I got some USB Ethernet dongle which uses RTL8153 chip
> and it works when I boot system but if I try to reconnect it or let it
> idle for a bit then it stops working with dmesg printing that nonfree
> firmware loading is disabled.
>
> Since it does work on boot is there some way I can make it always work
> even when reconnecting it? Maybe it uses some other driver on start &
> reconnecting breaks it as it tries to load nonfree one?
>
> lsusb -t outputs that the driver this dongle uses is r8152, which I
> assume is nonfree as it is the same one that is being reported as
> disabled in dmesg.
Figgured it out, I just needed to restart networking service... Probably
just installing something like network-manager will make it work. The
cause of it stopping working on idle is probably due to some usb power
saving that I will need to figure out (though it should also be fixed by
something like networkmanager).
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2024-03-10 16:08 USB Ethernet dongle stops working after reconnect Ivan Popovych
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