On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:03 PM Chuck Hast <wch...@gmail.com> wrote: > No they were there the dmesg command brought them to the > surface and the rest was just adding them to the yaml file for > netplan, run netplan try and once happy netplan apply and THEN > I could see them in all of the usual tools. > > The other thing I have found out about the stupid subiquiti > installer is if there is no network attached to the card or port > it will drop it and you will not see it, I had to attach live net- > works to the ports I wanted registered, oh it would find them > in the install then drop them. Also if you had a port that did > not go to a live network (I tried to use my camera network > which is an isolated island) again it would find then drop or > worse it would find then make the camera network the public > port!!! I would have to go in and change the metric on the > ports to get the right one going out. I am going to start looking > at some other server solution as it seems that Ubuntu is brain > dead... I do not know why they have to make setting up the > network part such a mess. Seems that one should not have > to go to such lengths to install a stinking nic card. > > The interesting thing is the desktop will do all of that stuff > automagically, I stuffed the fibre card in a desktop machine > and it found it as soon as it booted up, showed two fibre > ports same rev level (20.04.x) just desktop vice server... > > Lspci showed the presence of the card but it did not give > the port names which were enp30f0 and enp30f1.... > > Such is life.... But there are more fun things to do then > have to clean up something that should in my view be a > wee bit more obvious. > > This is not the first time I have run into this but it sure is getting > old. > > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 6:20 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> > wrote: > > > I have never installed Ubuntu Server, but I find that surprising. By > > default these days, interfaces will have "predictable" names, which I > > think is kind of a misnomer, but afaik should show up in the output of > > things like "ip a" or "ifconfig -a". It might be that your NIC needs > > firmware to operate, and that's what prevents it showing up. What NIC > > is it? What does lspci say? > > > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 3:08 PM Chuck Hast <wch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I had to add a nic card to an Ubuntu server. Appears that once the > > > server has been setup it will not recognize a new card. You have to > > > go in and find the port names, but in my case ifconfig, ip... etc only > > > showed me the functioning cards nothing else, I was finally able to > > > find them using dmesg | grep -i network, to see them. After that > > > I then had to go in and modify the netplan yaml file and run netplan > > > try to see if they were seen, indeed they were. > > > > > > Seems there should be a way to run the installer that did all of that > > > magic initially to short circuit the time it takes to do all of that > > just to > > > find out what the new port(s) are. In this case it was a fibre card > that > > > replaced the copper paths to/from the Zoneminder server. Subiquiti > > > appears to be what does this, so why is there not a way to at least > > > run the network part to discover a card and get on with getting it > > > online avoiding having to putz with netplan and all of that. Anyone > > > have any ideas or is that just the way it is? > > > > > > I tried all of the usual discovery tools to try to find those two ports > > but > > > not one of them displayed them, only the dmesg command above > > > worked. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > > > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. > > > Ph 4:13 KJV > > > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. > > > Fil 4:13 RVR1960 > > > > > -- > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. > Ph 4:13 KJV > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. > Fil 4:13 RVR1960 >
Went absolutely nuts with the last two computers I built trying to use both on-board NICs as well as PCI card NICs. Couldn't get Linux to recognize them or do anything with them. Weird thing was, when I plugged the Ethernet cable in, they lit up appropriately and the router even showed assigning them an IP address. But nothing in the computer, dmesg showed nothing, ip a showed nothing, no indication anywhere that Linux recognized or utilized the interfaces. Bought some cheap USB=Ethernet dongles from Amazon, plugged them in and bingo! full network connection. No twiddling, fiddling, drivers, or anything honest to goodness plug and play. Try it, you'll like it. Michael
