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I installed Clearos 7.2 on a computer to work as gateway, but it does not detect a network card of the two installed.
The question is: what is the procedure for installing new network cards?
I'm realy newbie in the world of Clearos, and I want someone to tell me what I can do, step by step.

Note: When I install clearos 5.2 on this computer, it does detect both network cards

Thank you for your consideration.
Tuesday, December 20 2016, 03:41 PM
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Wednesday, December 21 2016, 07:52 AM - #Permalink
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You're in luck. Your NIC needs the via-rhine driver and the source is available from ElRepo so I can compile it. Please download and install the kmod-via-rhine file from here.
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    Saturday, March 11 2017, 10:47 AM - #Permalink
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    Both the b43 and b43legacy drivers were deprecated in EL7 and it appears that the wl driver does not support the BCM4318. There is no ElRepo driver, but there is some info on the internet but you'll need a lot of searching :(

    If it is any consolation, putting a wireless NIC into the server is often not brilliant as the server is often not in a good location for WiFi coverage of the premises. Using a redundant router, connected LAN to LAN is often better (but remember to disable its DHCP and give it a sensible IP address)
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    John F
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    Friday, March 10 2017, 12:28 AM - #Permalink
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    I installed the forcedeth, and was able to get one working.

    Used lspci and found the other (wireless) network card
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Network Controller: BroadCom Corp BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 882.11g Wireless LAN Controller
    Subsystem: Linksys WMP54GS v1.1 802.11g Wireless-G PCI Adapter with SpeedBooster

    I looked it up and found these drivers, but I don't know which one would correspond to the drivers for ClearOS

    Was hoping to use this card to broadcast internal (Gateway) WIFI

    I've heard you need to use Atheros for this . . . .
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    Thursday, March 09 2017, 07:01 PM - #Permalink
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    Judging by the drivers on their site, it looks like it should use the r8169 driver. That should work out of the box in ClearOS which comes with the correct driver.

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    I don't know which drivers you tried installing but I think you needed the forcedeth one for your NIC's.
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    John F
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    Thursday, March 09 2017, 06:14 PM - #Permalink
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    Thanks for the helps Nick/Tony

    I posted a response, but it didn't go through for some reason. Perhaps my session timed out.

    I was able to get the drivers onto a CD, installed them (I think), but don't know if they worked (the install said it did, but when I booted back up, no NICs found)

    I bought an old (10+ years) NIC (Cnet PRO200) but could not find any drivers for it.

    Looking to get at least one ethernet working. Would this one on Amazon work?

    Thanks
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    Friday, March 03 2017, 01:46 AM - #Permalink
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    You might find this interesting... http://superuser.com/questions/853792/what-is-it-that-makes-some-usb-sticks-not-bootable Some find the Kingston USB 2.0 DataTraveller, for instance, causing boot problems... Even USB version of the flash drive makes a difference. One report has a Sandisk Cruzer Fit USB 2.0 working and the Sandisk Cruzer Fit USB 3.0 failing for a boot device. Sometimes the problem can be solved by deleting all partitions and re-partitioning.

    The instructions I wrote were while performing the procedure on ClearOS 7.3, and later verified on a ClearOS 6.8 system. What make of motherboard and BIOS level? Latest BIOS installed? What brand USB flash drive? Tried a different drive?
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    John F
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    Friday, March 03 2017, 01:14 AM - #Permalink
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    Tony,
    Thanks for the help.
    I tried mounting like you mentioned but got:

    16220.466234 FAT-fs (sdc):invalid media value (0x56)
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, missing codepage of helper program, or other error

    Partition Table: msdos

    Disk Flags:

    Number     Start       End        Size           Type       fs      Flag
    1 4194kB 7948kB 7944 MB Primary fat32 boot


    Now I am remembering, I could not boot from USB, so I had to use a disk.
    My BIOS could be giving me grief, might have to put the data on a CD

    Thanks!
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    Figured that was probably the case... had a little spare time while impatiently waiting for the NDA to be lifted for reviews of the new AMD Ryzen CPU :-) The advantage of being retired...
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    Thursday, March 02 2017, 05:49 PM - #Permalink
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    Thanks. I could not post the USB mounting instructions as I was at work and could not remember the details.
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    John F
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    Thursday, March 02 2017, 02:55 PM - #Permalink
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    I don't have the text due to my mounting problems, but attaching a screenshot
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    Thursday, March 02 2017, 10:30 AM - #Permalink
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    This is some help for "Getting USB to mount should not be a big problem"

    Copy your files to a small FAT formatted USB drive stick - best to stick with 8.3 filenames
    (You cannot read NTFS on ClearOS without installing additional software)
    Insert USB drive into a USB port on ClearOS server
    Look at /var/log/meesages for something like this...

    ... snipped
    Mar 2 21:00:12 alex kernel: usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 27 using ehci-pci
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=019e
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usb 1-6: Product: Storage Media
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usb 1-6: Manufacturer: SONY
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usb 1-6: SerialNumber: A104112400032
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usb-storage 1-6:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: scsi host4: usb-storage 1-6:1.0
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
    Mar 2 21:00:13 alex kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY Storage Media 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 507904 512-byte logical blocks: (260 MB/248 MiB)
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: sdb: sdb1
    Mar 2 21:00:14 alex kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
    ... snipped

    As you can see the USB drive files are on /dev/sdb1 in my case. Substitute yours in the following commands
    Go to the /mnt directory
    # cd /mnt
    Make a new directory - called mine USB
    # mkdir USB
    now mount the USB drive
    # mount -t msdos /dev/sdb1 /mnt/USB
    Change directory to your USB stick
    # cd /mnt/USB
    Check your files
    # ls -lad *

    ...snipped
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9373280 Aug 5 2016 boinc.exe
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7220496 Aug 19 2016 classic.exe
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7091129 Sep 18 00:01 easter.mp3
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 45217424 Aug 5 2016 firefox.exe
    ... snipped

    Copy your file(s) to someplace
    change to the directory you copied your file(s) to...
    unmount the USB drive so you can remove it
    # umount /dev/sdb1
    Install your rpm(s)
    # yum localinstall XXXXXXX.rpm
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    Thursday, March 02 2017, 08:27 AM - #Permalink
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    Without internet connectivity you will struggle big time to compile any drivers because of the packages you'll need to download. Getting USB to mount should not be a big problem.

    If you can post the output of "lspci -k | grep Eth -A 3" it would help me identify the driver needed (which may well be the forcedeth driver). There is a way of running the lspci command to give the PCI ID as well. This would be helpful but I can't remember it offhand.

    Obviously it would be easier to buy a new card, but that does not guarantee compatibility. Many new gigabit cards have the RTL8111/RTL8168 chip. ClearOS comes with a driver which will load but is not very good. Other cards could be too new! Generally Intel ones are safe (and expensive), but not always.
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    John F
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    Wednesday, March 01 2017, 10:28 PM - #Permalink
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    Jumping on this thread

    Also having the same problem

    I have two NICs using NVidia

    Problem I am having is getting the software from a USB onto ClearOS.
    Can't get anything to mount.

    Perhaps it's better to get some new NICs. Which one would install automatically?
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    Friday, December 23 2016, 01:41 AM - #Permalink
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    Hi there,

    I also have a similar problem, except BOTH of my network cards are not detected when I try to install ClearOS 7.2

    1) What is the recommended way to install ClearOS 7.2 with the necessary NIC drivers?
    2) How do I access the terminal from USB installer or installed ClearOS 7.2 (without NIC drivers)?
    3) Can somebody help compile/provide the necessary drivers to me?

    Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

    Best Regards,
    Eric



    user@gateway:~ # lspci -k | grep Eth -A 3
    00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 0191
    Kernel driver in use: sis190
    Kernel modules: sis190
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    00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] (rev 86)
    Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-538TX
    Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
    Kernel modules: via-rhine
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    Josue
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    Wednesday, December 21 2016, 04:56 PM - #Permalink
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    Thank you very much Nick, The problem is now resolved.

    Thank you for your great support!
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    Josue
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    Tuesday, December 20 2016, 11:03 PM - #Permalink
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    Hello Nick, thanks for help me

    output of lspci -k | grep Eth -A 3

    02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device 2308
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    05:01.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] (rev 8b)
    Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-520TX Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter

    And not detect me the D-link DFE-520TX card.

    How can I do?
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    Tuesday, December 20 2016, 05:22 PM - #Permalink
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    If it is an older server then RedHat so Centos and ClearOS removed some of the older drivers from release 7.x.

    Some of the older drivers are still available but need installing separately. What is the output to:
    lspci -k | grep Eth -A 3
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