Wired connection not detected after installation of CentOS 7

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Spara06
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Wired connection not detected after installation of CentOS 7

Post by Spara06 » 2014/08/12 22:55:59

Hi there everyone, I'm trying a little experiment and wanted to test out CentOS 7 on an older Macbook that I'm not using. I've got it installed and the WiFi is working fine but I cannot get the wired connection to come up. ifconfig shows no eth0 or wired device and lspci -nn | grep -i net shows me an nVidia ethernet adapter. Anyone know what's up?
Thanks!

bertan
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Re: Wired connection not detected after installation of Cent

Post by bertan » 2014/08/12 23:29:44

I don't know, but I can make some suggestions:
  • ifconfig is still there but is deprecated
  • wired interface is disabled by default in the installer
  • it may not be called eth0 anymore (mine has a funny long name)

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Re: Wired connection not detected after installation of Cent

Post by TrevorH » 2014/08/12 23:59:21

nvidia ethernet sounds like the forcedeth kernel module which was removed from el7. If you google ELRepo they have a kmod-forcedeth that can re-enable that driver.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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Re: Wired connection not detected after installation of Cent

Post by Spara06 » 2014/08/13 16:50:18

TrevorH wrote:nvidia ethernet sounds like the forcedeth kernel module which was removed from el7. If you google ELRepo they have a kmod-forcedeth that can re-enable that driver.
Thanks, that solved the problem. Installed kmod-forcedeth and now the wired connection is picked up.

Cheers

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