As a follow-up to my recent posts regarding Network interfaces not coming UP after a successful Proxmox 7.1-2 Installation - I think I've resolved the problem. Many previous (related) posts here (and in the Proxmox Release Notes and Bug Reports) spoke about a known bug in the Intel e1000e driver and suggested some work-arounds, implemented as commands issued at the Linux Command level. Before I tried these I thought I might visit the Dell Support site just to see if there was any news there about this. What I found (to my surprise!) was a recent BIOS update (A26) for the M6800 class machine. This was put out since I updated all my drivers and BIOS for Windows 10 Pro, last year. The description of the A26 BIOS update listed a fix to the e1000e LAN interface. I reattached my Win10Pro system disk and upgraded the BIOS to A26. After removing Win10Pro, re-inserting my Proxmox system SSD and booting up ther corresponding indicator lights on my switch illuminated. I was then able to ping my network gateway from the Proxmox host and login to the Proxmox host via remote browser. A brief "tour" of the various parts of the Proxmox GUI suggest that my network issue has been resolved and I can move forward with intended undertakings.
Thanks, once again, for all of the suggestions, both from the mailing-list posts and via private email. I will end in reiterating (2) basic rules of computer administration: 1) RTFM 2) Keep drivers and BIOS levels - up to date!!! VBR, Patrick Buryk _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
