[Solved] No Networking for ASUS M5A78L-M LX Series

[linuxdad]

I am installing Mageia 4 on a New ASUS M5A78L-M LX Series Motherboard. The installation went fine until I attempted to start up the network. Unfortunately the intergrated Realtek RTL8111E/F PCIe Gigabit Lan controller would not turn on.

Is this a supported Lan Interface? Did I get a Bum motherboard (I'm not thrilled with it (it supports Windows 7).

The Linux folder on the Drivers Disk says the following:

Note: Please update to the latest Linux Kernel for motherboard chipset and components support.

I don't think that there is anything newer than Mageia 4, right? (that's rhetorical folks).

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.

[doktor5000]

Which media did you use to install Mageia, and which desktop environment are you using? Do you use net_applet or NetworkManager?

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lspcidrake -v | grep -i net


and, as root:

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journalctl -b -u network --no-pager -a
systemctl status network.service -a


[linuxdad]

I am not going to pretend to understand why this worked, but I enabled Plug'n Play and that seems to have the network connection now working.

Would you expect that?

[doktor5000]

You mean like plug'n'play in the BIOS? Well, isn't that what you wanted

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks