On 1/8/22 19:13, sciguy wrote: > This has happened with what I have tried so far: Debian and Ubuntu. I > have been accustomed to my network card being auto-detected and the > internet being automatically connected with an installation, but I am > not getting internet on installation, so much of the installation has > failed. > > This machine was set up as a dual boot, and is running Windows 10 with > the latest updates. It has previously run a version of Ubuntu Studio, > but with this upgrade (first by USB then by DVD), I am not getting a > network, and so the installation remains half-finished. > > Somehow, after changing this over to Debian, where the installation > failed for the same reason, Windows 10 EFI detected the incomplete > installation and now offers "finishing the Debian installation" as a > boot option when I reboot. > > It seems the root of my problem is in Microsoft's choice to take over > the EFI in a recent update, thereby supplanting GRUB, which was there > before. GRUB was a technology I understood fairly well; EFI is not. Can > anyone suggest, or point to some resources, for how to install Linux > alongside W10, in a way that the EFI appears to recognize (since it > seemed to almost accidentally with Debian). > > For the record, the motherboard is an ASUS Maximus VI Hero with an > onboard Intel NIC (Intel Ethernet Connection I217-V). The processor is > an Intel Core I7-4770K (Haswell). > > It needs to go online for at least the video drivers (I have NVIDIA and > a dual monitor), and I am hoping that it is not needing to go online for > the network driver. >
Hi sciguy, I'm not sure that UEFI/BIOS mode is the reason for not connecting to Internet but check in which mode Debian installer recognize the system during initial screen menu. Here are two screenshots BIOS mode - https://ibb.co/Q8yvyYz EFI mode - https://ibb.co/pKfpcQp if you want EFI mode try to disable compatibility mode in UEFI. If you want BIOS mode then enable compatibility mode in UEFI. Kind regards Georgi
