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December 21st, 2020 11:00
Latitude 5411 - CentOS 7 NIC driver
Have you all had any success installing Centos 7 on a Latitude 5411 and getting it to recognize the NIC? For us, it will not recognize the NIC from the CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso.
If we hook up a WD15 docking station, it does see this NIC. We run "yum update" on the machine, but still haven't had success with the driver.
$ nmcli dev
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
enp57s0u1u2 ethernet connected enp57s0u1u2
virbr0 bridge connected virbr0
wlo1 wifi unavailable --
vmnet1 ethernet unmanaged --
vmnet8 ethernet unmanaged --
lo loopback unmanaged --
virbr0-nic tun unmanaged --
If I run a "ifconfig -a" it looks like CentOS is seeing the NIC on the laptop, as well as the NIC on the docking station:
virbr0-nic: flags=4098 mtu 1500
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo shows that:
$ cat ifcfg-lo
DEVICE=lo
IPADDR=127.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=127.0.0.0
# If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian,
# you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example)
BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
NAME=loopback
A coworker said he had some success with some Precision laptops, but of course these are Latitudes. He said he added the elrepo and installed the "kernel-ml" package. I tried his how-to, but cannot get it to work for our 5411's. Do any of you have any advice?
Thank you.


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