Hey all,
I recently installed Bazzite and I’m quite enjoying it. I’m running into a particular issue which I suspect may be related to the ethernet driver. My connection speed caps out at roughly 80-90Mbps while I am very much used to it capping around 900-1000Mbps instead.
I figured out that I have a realtek ethernet card, the RTL8125, and found a driver for it that I would like to install.
This is the contents of the driver archive. As you can see it comes with a makefile. When I run this it compiles it but is unable to install it because of a read-only filesystem, which makes sense.
Is there anybody that can explain to me how I can get this driver installed? Or potentially help me troubleshoot my network issue?
Thanks in advance
Turns out it was a classic case of me being the problem!
I completely forgot to check this on my Windows installation and turns out I was encountering the same issue there. I had this issue before and it was a configuration option in my Unifi controller that causes this.
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I’m in the same boat, Realtek RTL8125 (2.5 GbE) and getting <100 mpbs - and also Unify. What was your fix?
Were you able to solve this?
Im facing the same issue, got a B550 Aorus Pro AC with a RTL8125 network card. It is supposed to be able to handle 2.5 gb but I only get ~90-100mbps.
Ive tried most of the basic troubleshooting, like in the network settings changing “Link Negotiation” to “Manual”, “Speed” to 1gb and “Metered” to No. Then a cold restart with powercycling. This caused the system to be unable to connect, in a constant attempt to connect again.
When proceeding to sudo ethtool eno1 I get in the speed section “Speed: 100Mb/s*”.* Running sudo** ethtool -s eno1 speed 1000 duplex full** and then again sudo ethtool eno1 I was faced with a “Speed: Unknown!” and “Duplex: Unknown! (255)”.
I confirmed that the card is recognised and installed through lspci -nnk | grep -i ethernet > which returned > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:8125] (rev 05)
So now I have no further clue on how to proceed. I’m trying to make this my daily driver to get away from Windows, for good. But these network speeds make the system almost unusable for games and video calls.
Apologies for not including the solution in my post. It has to do with one of the settings in my unifi configuration. I don’t recall exactly which one it was anymore but one of them limited the maximum speed.
