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
