Hi Heiner,

thanks for the speedy reply.

On 6/30/19 12:09 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:

If r8169 (the mainline driver) is running, why do you want to switch
to r8168 (the Realtek vendor driver)? The latter is not supported by
the kernel community.

Well I did install r8168 because r8169 is not working.
Didn't even get to see the MAC of the NIC.

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2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Seems like the network isn't started.

Jepp, that is the output from the r8169.

Regards,
Karsten