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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.

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


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?

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