02-15-2016, 07:04 PM
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Near the end of January my venerable HP Pavilion decided to go off to that great motherboard in the sky. Had a power outage, though the system was on a UPS, shut it down normally, all was good, I thought. Tried bringing it up later, nada, goose egg, big fat zero, you get the idea. The power supply would flash for a second and nothing. Checking the back revealed that even the LEDs for the network connection had gone dark, having transmitted and received their last packets. The good news was that the orderly shutdown should mean that the data on the hard disk was still okay (it is).
The problem I've got now is that after much perusing of systems, reading umpteen reviews, I finally opted for a custom built PC from a vendor in Missouri: nice job, great work. You can go down the whole list from case to CPU to motherboard, GPU card, memory, and so on and so on. Sweet.
I had them install Ubuntu 15.x on what I had thought would be a secondary hard drive so that they could test the machine with a running O/S. When I boot the latest version it sees the network fine. Boot Linux Lite and nothing. Contacted the vendor about it and was advised:
On the ethernet the only way we can get Ubuntu to work is if we install the latest version. This board just came out in September so any OS made prior to that won’t have the drivers built in.
Gigabyte’s site is not showing any Linux drivers available.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product...id=5490#dl
As Pinky, of "Pinky and The Brain" cartoon fame would say, "Narf!"
Knowing that Linux Lite is built on the LTS releases, does it just make more sense for me at this point to switch to the latest Ubuntu (using xfce) after moving everything over from the Linux Lite disk, or does anybody have another idea?
Thanks in advance.
Near the end of January my venerable HP Pavilion decided to go off to that great motherboard in the sky. Had a power outage, though the system was on a UPS, shut it down normally, all was good, I thought. Tried bringing it up later, nada, goose egg, big fat zero, you get the idea. The power supply would flash for a second and nothing. Checking the back revealed that even the LEDs for the network connection had gone dark, having transmitted and received their last packets. The good news was that the orderly shutdown should mean that the data on the hard disk was still okay (it is). The problem I've got now is that after much perusing of systems, reading umpteen reviews, I finally opted for a custom built PC from a vendor in Missouri: nice job, great work. You can go down the whole list from case to CPU to motherboard, GPU card, memory, and so on and so on. Sweet.
I had them install Ubuntu 15.x on what I had thought would be a secondary hard drive so that they could test the machine with a running O/S. When I boot the latest version it sees the network fine. Boot Linux Lite and nothing. Contacted the vendor about it and was advised:
On the ethernet the only way we can get Ubuntu to work is if we install the latest version. This board just came out in September so any OS made prior to that won’t have the drivers built in.
Gigabyte’s site is not showing any Linux drivers available.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product...id=5490#dl
As Pinky, of "Pinky and The Brain" cartoon fame would say, "Narf!"
Knowing that Linux Lite is built on the LTS releases, does it just make more sense for me at this point to switch to the latest Ubuntu (using xfce) after moving everything over from the Linux Lite disk, or does anybody have another idea?
Thanks in advance.