RHEL not recognizing my network card

coderboy14 · 10-10-2017, 01:52 PM

I installed RHEL onto my desktop to act as a home server, but it won't recognize its internal network card, and it is too far away from the router to use ethernet. I followed the instructions of some posts but none of them work. I do have some outputs that other posts say might be important:

lspi -vnn | grep -i net

03:00.0 Ethernet Controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet Controller [10ec:8136] (Rec 05)

04:00.0 Network Controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:539b]

273 · 10-10-2017, 01:56 PM

Did you ask Red Hat support whether they could provide it for you?

coderboy14 · 10-10-2017, 02:02 PM

Unfortunately, I don't have any of the info, I'm using an ISO my friend sent to me, and installed it to the hard drive. I'm pretty sure that you need activation license or whatever to get support (or it'll probably cost a good bit). I was just hoping that was a quite in/out problem.

273 · 10-10-2017, 02:05 PM

It's really a poblem of support -- if you'r not paying for it try CentOS or the like.
Your wireless device likely needs a closed-source driver and/or firmware.

TB0ne · 10-10-2017, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by coderboy14

I installed RHEL onto my desktop to act as a home server, but it won't recognize its internal network card, and it is too far away from the router to use ethernet. I followed the instructions of some posts but none of them work. I do have some outputs that other posts say might be important:

Code:

lspi -vnn | grep -i net

03:00.0 Ethernet Controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet Controller [10ec:8136] (Rec 05)
04:00.0 Network Controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:539b]

...and...

Quote:

Originally Posted by coderboy14

Unfortunately, I don't have any of the info, I'm using an ISO my friend sent to me, and installed it to the hard drive. I'm pretty sure that you need activation license or whatever to get support (or it'll probably cost a good bit). I was just hoping that was a quite in/out problem.

Yes, you do, and it does cost money. That said, WHY are you using RHEL? What is it you're trying to accomplish?

ANY version/distro of Linux can be a 'home server'; ALL of them can run Samba (for Windows system sharing), act as print servers, share disks via NFS/SSHFS, be proxy servers for Internet security, firewalls, etc. RHEL is designed for back-end servers, and it's not free. You can download ISO's of anything (including RHEL) for free, so you don't have to depend on your friend. I'd suggest loading Linux Mint, and chances are your system will 'just work'.

If you want to spend a good bit of money/effort, feel free to use RHEL. While you can get a developers license for free, there is hardly much point in doing so.

jefro · 10-10-2017, 04:13 PM

RHEL is a poor choice for wireless.

The RH clone Centos claims that chip has support https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRe...RealTekRTL8101

I'd post ifconfig of ip command results. Did you use any sort of wireless manager?

https://www.google.com/search?q=cent...utf-8&oe=utf-8

While a ton of info exists for RH online, most of that is also available for Centos or Scientific linux or Oracle unbreakable. All should be very similar. RH may have some features that are not available so if you need them you should consider buying their support.