LAN connection problem

Netrunner Netrunner 20.01
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Good time of day to you kind people.

I started having problems with my LAN connection. It’s a backup lenovo machine and everything was working swimmingly until I tried upgrading my wifi card. Turns out this model only supports certain kind of wireless modules and to use any other outside the list I have to change refirm bios and etc.

Long story short. After removing it altogether and going for an external wifi module I just decided to use hardwired connection and manually install the driver since there isn’t one for Linux separately.

When I plug in the cable it doesn’t detect the connection. lspci lists my card fine. When I do the same on windows, there is no issue. When I boot into live distro there is no issue.

Don’t really know what is it.

Any advice?

Thank you,

Unagi.

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Using the bash with:

inxi -n

gives you some more information, whether any and witch driver is used or not.
Helpful sometimes.

3

Can you go into the networkmanager and see if there is a configuration for your card? If not try to create one.

5

inxi -n output:

Network: Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: 5c:ff:35:0e:a3:cc

But like I said lspci does detect ethernet module fine. It’s the wifi card. Was working fine and then… something happened.

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You mean the device manager in windows? Neither Linux nor Windows nor live boot into Linux detect the card. Could it be busted? How would I check?

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You could try a live linux system to see if it works there.
Otherwise make sure that it is activated in BIOS maybe.

And I meant networkmanager which is the thing that handles your network connection and can be configured especially also for ethernet devices.