Ethernet Not Working, Intel e1000e 82578DC rev 06

[trinidad]

Are you disconnected from WIFI while attempting to connect from wired? If not disconnect from WIFI and try, or try wired connecting to another computer to test the interface.

TC

[jerryc]

Are you disconnected from WIFI while attempting to connect from wired? ... disconnect from WIFI and try

Didn't work.

or try wired connecting to another computer to test the interface.

Works fine on same computer with Win7 and has for years.

[Moltke]

Neither of these worked, either:

Code:

sudo ip link set dev enp0s25 up

Code:

sudo /sbin/ifconfig enp0s25 up

Did you get any error message or any message at all after running either one of these commands? What did the message say?

[jerryc]

Did you get any error message or any message at all after running either one of these commands? What did the message say?

Nope. Just new prompts.

Thanks for exploring this, moltke.

[Valtam]

There are a number of suggestions online for this chipset. Let's work through them one at a time. Some report a fix by having the latest BIOS installed.

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[jerryc]

Here's more:

Code:

sudo lshw -C network

gives, in relevant part:

Code:

  *-network                 
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82578DC Gigabit Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: enp0s25
       version: 06
       serial: 60:eb:69:de:64:ec
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=0.12-5 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:27 memory:fbec0000-fbedffff memory:fbef8000-fbef8fff ioport:e880(size=32)

I notice the driver version is old, but it's part of the kernel. Not sure if changing it would matter, because the computer is old, too, and changing kernel drivers is a little over my head. If that's what it'll take, that's what I'll do, but i expect there's a simpler solution.

Thanks for reviewing this and thinking about it.

[jerryc]

I found this:

Code:

dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Somebody said it worked for him. I don't understand it, if I should try it as is, or if some of those things are variables I need to replace, like the username.

I've read updating the driver in the kernel didn't work for several people.

[Valtam]

Also, output please of:

Code:

sudo lshw -C net

and

Code:

dmesg | grep -e eth -e e1000

[Valtam]

I found this:

Code:

dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Somebody said it worked for him. I don't understand it, if I should try it as is, or if some of those things are variables I need to replace, like the username.

I've read updating the driver in the kernel didn't work for several people.

I wouldn't do that at this stage.

[jerryc]

Thank you for your input.

The computer with the recent LL install is at my gf's, and I'm away from it until next weekend. I'll jump back into this thread when I'm in front of it again.

However, I can make one side comment right now. I've been a xubuntu user for 15+ years, with two short deviations, one to mint, and one to mx linux. I left the both in short order because I found their forums almost useless. This forum, however, has been off the chart phenomenal.

I already loved the OS. Now, I really love it. I'll be converting my own box from xubuntu to LL soon.

Thank you all for the help.