Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:3000] driver missing in CentOS 8.2.

[lugia]

I installed CentOS 8.2 from the dvd ISO file today. My system connects to Wifi, but is unable to connect to Ethernet. My system is a High End Alienware from Early 2020. Here's the pertinent information:

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[root@lugia ~]# ifconfig
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 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.122.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.122.255
        ether 52:54:00:06:8:c  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
wlp70s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.1.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.100.241.255
        inet6 fe8::2d6:563:42b:83  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 5c:80:b6:7a:8f:6e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 126090  bytes 164073507 (156.4 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 23416  bytes 3313129 (3.1 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
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[Lugia@lugia ~]$ lspci -nn | grep -i net
45:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:3000] (rev 03)
46:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 [8086:2723] (rev 1a)

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[root@lugia ~]# yum install kmod-forcedeth
Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:56 ago on Wed 18 Nov 2020 04:53:17 PM EST.
Package kmod-forcedeth-0.0-4.el8_2.elrepo.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

The ELREPO website, http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs?highlight=realtek, does not list the "vendor:device ID" corresponding to either [10ec:3000] or [8086:2723].

Could someone please point to me to where I can find these drives so I may use my ethernet?

Thank you.

[TrevorH]

Wait for 8.3, the ethernet card has been added to the r8169 module.

[lugia]

When will CentOs 8.3 be released? On wikipedia it says TBA and other places just say end of year.

Also, is there any way I can get the driver installed on CentOS 8.2? It seems a bit of work to upgrade just to get this two drivers.

Thank you!

[TrevorH]

RHEL 8.3 was released last week or so and it takes time to rebuild several thousand packages.

The support is in the kernel so you need a newer kernel than 8.2 has. That newer kernel may have dependencies on other packages that are part of 8.3 too.

[lugia]

Do you happen to know what kernel version or the version of the package for kernel that 8.3 has?

[toracat]

The GA kernel for 8.3 is kernel-4.18.0-240.el8.