Ivan Popovych <i...@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).
