Re: module not loading on startup

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 11/08/2017 à 08:32, Gary Dale a écrit :
> I eventually tracked the problem down to a UDEV persistent rule (now 
> deleted) and also the need to modify /etc/network/interfaces to use the 
> name the name of the new NIC (enp5s0 instead of eth0 - since it wasn't 
> carried over in the upgrade from Jessie). However because I installed 
> the Realtek module, the r8169 kernel module isn't automatically loading.

Check files in /etc/modprobe.d/ for some "blacklist r8169" command and 
comment it out. You may need to rebuild the initramfs with 
update-initramfs -u.