New install: Networking not working

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I have been using Linux for years but I am new to Qubes, I have just installed Qubes-R4.2.4-x86_64 on a brand new Dell desktop system.

If I try and start an XCF terminal in any of profiles I get eg:

Qube Status: sys-firewall: Qube sys-firewall is starting
Qube Status: sys-net: Qube sys-net is starting
Qube Status: sys-net: Qube sys-net has failed to start: Requested operation is not valid: PCI device 000:80:1f.6 is not assignable
Qube Status: sys-firewall: Qube sys-firewall has failed to start: Requested operation is not valid: PCI device 000:80:1f.6 is not assignable

In the lspci -k output (from dom0) I see the network adaptor:

80:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 550c (rev 10)
          Subsystem: Dell Device 0ce1
          Kernel driver in use: pciback
          Kernel modules: e1000e

When I asked about this on Reddit, someone suggested some sort of problem with IOMMU groups and that I should get a listing of the IOMMU groups.

The only group that includes an ethernet controller is:

IOMMU Group 24:
  80:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7f08] (rev 10)
  80:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7f50] (rev 10)
  80:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7f23] (rev 10)
  80:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7f24] (rev 10)
  80:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:550c] (rev 10)

Anyone have any ideas on how to move forward on this?

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so I have this

IOMMU Group 12:
        00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH eSPI Controller [8086:5182] (rev 01)
        00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller [8086:51c8] (rev 01)
        00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P SMBus Host Controller [8086:51a3] (rev 01)
        00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH SPI Controller [8086:51a4] (rev 01)
        00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (16) I219-LM [8086:1a1e] (rev 01)

and have no problem to attach audio device to sys-audio and ethernet to sys-net

run

qvm-pci

and check where is your network card attached

3

The last line of the qvm-pci output is:

dom0:80_1f.8  Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation             sys-net
4

Is your sys-net running?
If not, can you start it manually?

5

When I boot, the mouse and keyboard do not work when I get to the user login (but it does work for entering the disk password). To fix that I added temporarily qubes.skip_autostart to the grub boot options. That go the thing booted.

sys-net does not start automatically, but when I try to start it I get:

Qube Status: sys-net: Qube sys-net is starting
Qube Status: sys-net: Qube sys-net has failed to start: Requested operation is not valid: PCI device 000:80:1f.6 is not assignable

It also says see /var/log/../libxl-driver.log for details but that log file is empty.

6

Did you configured strict reset for pci devices in sys-net Devices settings for this network card?

7

Just tried that. No good. Same error as before.

8

I’m out of ideas how to check what is using this device that it can’t be attached.

9

Reinstalled from scratch and got the same error about dom0:80_1f.8 .