Thanks for the offers of PCI NICs - pretty sure I have at least 2 in the box on the shelf just above my computer so I will resort to that if I have to. But my wifi is working so I'm good for now. And here in the new house I don't have the final cables laid yet either so "hard-wired" right now only goes to an old wifi router running DD-WRT in bridge-mode to the house wifi. Once I finally get the cables laid if I don't have my problem solved I'll be reaching for one of those NICs. Pretty sure one of them is even still new in the box! On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:14 PM 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 -- "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