after reboot ethernet driver missing ?

[AartJansen]

I had the notification the server required a reboot, first time since shifting to new hardware. After reboot I couldn't ping it, went and checked the server seemed to be "up" but ip addr just gave me a long list of veth and I couldn't find my main physicial ethernet in the list. I have a TP-LINK 2.5 Gb PCIe card, and the driver was still in my home folder, so I just ran the installer again, and re-ran ip addr, it now showed up in the list.

This I think, is an ubuntu rather than cloudron issue, but how do I make the driver 'stick' after reboot ?

[AartJansen]

Maybe this "out-of-tree" issue?
aart@cloudron:~$ dmesg |grep r8125
[ 829.122245] r8125: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 829.122310] r8125: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 829.123019] r8125 2.5Gigabit Ethernet driver 9.009.01-NAPI loaded
[ 829.137858] r8125: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.
[ 829.139888] r8125 Copyright (C) 2022 Realtek NIC software team nicfae@realtek.com
[ 829.141731] r8125 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: renamed from eth0
[ 835.133296] r8125: enp3s0: link up

[girish]

Wow, sorry to make light of your situation, but I have to admit I haven't installed ethernet driver for linux for over 20 years.

I have limited knowledge on this but usually /etc/modules is where the auto insmod'able modules go.

[AartJansen]

Cheers, yes I've added the r8125 module to that now. I'll see what happens next time I need to restart. I haven't had to either, must be my cheap hardware choices biting me in the ass.