Even a USB-ethernet dongle will get you going. A USB3 dongle can do gigabit pretty easily.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 6:43 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > > Can you install another NIC that is supported? > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 6:39 PM Michael Barnes <barnmich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 5:37 PM TomasK <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > CentOS 7 is pretty old (predates it by years) for your hardware - you > > > need kernel 5.3 or newer for this to work properly. > > > > > > I am not sure if you can get this new kernel from CentOS 7 > > > repositories. If you are used to CentOS - try CentOS stream or Fedora > > > with newer kernel. > > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > Tomas > > > > > > On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 16:53 -0800, Michael Barnes wrote: > > > > Just got a new computer a friend built. It is using a Biostar B550GTA > > > > Motherboard. I installed CentOS 7 in it, which went well. > > > > > > > > Problem is, I cannot get a network connection. I plug in the Ethernet > > > > cable > > > > and get a good light on the switch and a blinking yellow light on the > > > > jack > > > > in the computer. Cable verified good. > > > > > > > > If I do an 'ip a' it only shows io, no eth0. If I run the network > > > > utility > > > > nmtui, it does not show any Ethernet devices. > > > > > > > > I haven't worked on machines at this level in a few years, so I have > > > > likely > > > > forgotten all the obvious stuff. I went into the Motherboard setup > > > > and find > > > > nothing regarding enable/disable onboard Ethernet. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > First, the computer I had was too old. Now, it is too new. I have to use > > CentOS7 for the application I am running, which uses qt4. CentOS8 only has > > qt5, which is not backwards compatible. And, so far, everything I have seen > > says because CentOS Stream is based on pre-release RHEL, it is not ready > > for production use. Looks like I'm getting caught between a rock and a hard > > place. > > > > I wanted to see what it said about the nic, so I ran lspci and got "command > > not found". I guess I need to install pciutils, which is on the > > installation DVD, but I don't know how to install it from that. Only have > > the command line at this time. > > > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug