Hello. First-time Qubes user, somewhat new to Linux. I'm not able to connect to the network over Ethernet. In the system tray is a red network icon with an x. If I click it and select "Wired connection", the icon changes to two circling red dots (i.e. a "wait" icon). Occasionally a message pops up saying "The network connection has been disconnected." Eventually it gives up and goes back to the red network icon.
I'm able to connect to the network using the same computer with a different OS. I tried replacing my cat-5 cable, but no luck. The cat-5 cable connects to a wifi repeater, if that makes any difference. The wifi repeater is programmed with the wifi network information; when I connect a computer to it, it's typically treated like any other wired connection. I'm using wifi, so I don't have a modem I can connect to. I do have a wifi USB card, but I don't know how to make Qubes use that (I know how to attach USB storage devices, but not this). I'm running Qubes from a USB stick, if that makes any difference. I'm on the same computer I used to install it. I have an old Biostar TPower X79 mainboard. When I look at the properties for sys-net, it shows the following device attached: 0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Contoller (rev 06) I don't see any other network-related devices listed. sudo lspci -v 00:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06) Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device [1565:230a] Physical slot: 5 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 71 I/O ports at c200 [size=256] Memory at f2029000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at f2024000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01 Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169 sudo systemctl | grep 'eth' sys-devices-vif\x2d0-net-eth0.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/vif-0/net/eth0 sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device loaded active plugged /sys/subsystem/net/devices/eth0 LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded. sudo journalctl | grep 'eth' Apr 04 17:02:34 sys-firewall kernel: xen_netfront: Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver ifconfig -a eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.137.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 10.255.255.255 inet6 fe80::216:3eff:fe5e:6c00 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 00:16:3e:5e:6c:00 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 44 bytes 3192 (3.1 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 44 bytes 3136 (3.0 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback) RX packets 26 bytes 2104 (2.0 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 26 bytes 2104 (2.0 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 Last night for some reason ifconfig was listing my ethernet connection as "ens5". Not sure why that happened but it seems to be gone now. Thank you very much for any suggestions, and if I can provide any other info just let me know. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/d562bea2-f93b-4bf1-9253-a6ace853b925%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.