Alan Can you throw in a PCI nic just to save the hassle of sorting out that on-board NIC? You might want to quickly try Ubuntu. Cheers Rick On April 23, 2019 9:14:27 PM EDT, Alan McKay <alan [ dot ] mckay [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: >Hey folks, a bit of a longshot but is anyone using this and can give >me the magic incantation to get the NIC working? It has an i217-v >chipset and wow there are a lot of issues with that out there on >google. Just spent almost 2 hours buried in it. > >The only real recent solution I can find is changing wake-on-lan and >PXE settings so I've been messing around with those in BIOS but still >no love, though I am seeing slightly different behavior. With the >current settings Linux isn't even seeing the NIC for some reason >(though that should not be the case based on my settings) but in >previous incantations it was seeing it but the kernel module was not >loading with a -2 error. > >Luckily the on-board wifi is working great but my end goal is to >disable that in the BIOS and use hard-wired. > >I'm on the latest CentOS 7 just yum updated but there seem to be >similar problems with every release of Linux since Fedora 9 with that >chipset > >Otherwise loving the new (to me) PC! > >I think my next step is to pop in a different blank HD and try a fresh >install just out of curiosity. > >-- >"You should sit in nature for 20 minutes a day. > Unless you are busy, then you should sit for an hour" > - Zen Proverb > >To unsubscribe send a blank message to >linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com