Good evening everyone. I've run into an aggravating issue here. I have a somewhat new PC build and ran into the fact that my ethernet does not work in Kali.
System Specs:
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi
CPU: Intel Core i5 10400
RAM: Corsair DDR 4 Vengeance Pro 16GB
My WiFi adapter works fine out of the box so to speak. In fact even my USB-C NIC works, but I'd rather use the on-board NIC. I did some research on this matter, and according to MSI it's an Realtek 8125B 2.5 GBe
So naturally I thought maybe the drivers weren't installed for this, so I attempted to download and install them from realtek, but kept getting make clean errors. Then I did some poking around in the /lib/firmware/rtl_nic directory and found that I do have the rtl8125B.fw and other firmwares there.
I know you'll need these details as well.
Code:
wolf@Wolf-DT:/lib/firmware/rtl_nic$ lspci -knn | grep Eth -A2
DeviceName: Onboard - Ethernet
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz [8086:0074]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
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03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:8125] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [1462:7c73]
Kernel modules: r8169
Code:
OS: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling x86_64
Host: MS-7C73 1.0
Kernel: 5.8.0-kali2-amd64
Uptime: 25 mins
Packages: 2667 (dpkg)
Shell: bash 5.0.18
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: Xfce 4.14
WM: Xfwm4
WM Theme: Kali-Dark
Theme: Kali-Dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: Flat-Remix-Blue-Dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: terminator
CPU: Intel i5-10400 (12) @ 4.300GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590
Memory: 1262MiB / 15934MiB
I'm out of ideas of what I need to do to get this working. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.