Well, you're probably gonna have to spam us some more info. On the working knoppix boot, spam lspci showing what driver is loaded. then spam it on ubuntu to verify if it's loaded there as well.
dmesg for the relevant parts on both would also help. I'd make sure ubuntu has linux-firmware installed, could simply be failing if it's missing. ifconfig could show if it is loaded and just doesn't have an ip assigned, if the mac address says 00:00:00:00:00 that'd be a different problem. I've used ubuntu quite a bit, mostly it's just fancy wrappers to simplify things that usually work, only real problems I've had are things always being behind which made out of tree packages need lots of other things manually updated which gets annoying pretty fast when those then need updated. Adding sources that hopefully get updated is much better than trying to manually compile, so try to keep that in mind. Maybe try a live ubuntu of a different version could help. ________________________________________ From: Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2023 4:28 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help Wols Lists wrote: > On 16/10/2023 08:51, Dale wrote: >> Anyone here have ideas? Keep in mind, that thing uses systemd. I >> thought I hated that before. I truly hate that thing now. Trying to >> figure out how to restart something is like pulling teeth with no >> pain meds. > > systemctl restart servicename? > > I like systemd, but given my battles with other stuff, I feel your > pain. Having had to WRITE a service file, though, oh I'm so glad I > wasn't messing with SystemV or stuff like that! > > Just be warned - I feel about apt stuff just like you feel about > systemd ... > > > But anyways. Does your hard disk kernel have the appropriate module > for the network card loaded? I can't remember the name of the systemd > networking service, but did you "systemctl enable" it? > > Oh, and I think it fires up DHCP by default so you don;'t need to > enable any of that stuff. > > Hopefully those tips will get you somewhere - this is what I remember > from enabling systemd on gentoo... > > Cheers, > Wol > > I tried to restart a couple things I found during my searches but most of them no longer exist. It seems they change names pretty often. I've tried to find anything that looks like network to restart but I can't tell what is what. I found out it has netplan installed. I tried a few things with it but thing is, since it shows as disabled, there's no device to restart or even start to begin with. I looked, the modules are loaded. I checked both cards and they are there. I used lspci -k to get the module names and then lsmod and grep to see if they listed as loaded. To be honest, the network has worked fine ever since the install. Heck, for a while, the NAS box didn't even have a monitor or keyboard. I just power it up, wait a little while, ssh in from my main rig. From there I could do anything I needed to. This time, I had to drag out the monitor and keyboard to see what is going on. I'm kinda stuck. Since it doesn't work when booting the USB install image, I can't even just reinstall and start over. This is plenty odd. Dale :-) :-)
