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  • I saw earlier you mentioned it’s an Optiplex, so I’m assuming this is an onboard NIC.

    I’ve never had an onboard NIC not work out-of-the-box in Linux. Wifi, sure, but usually just certain chipsets with proprietary/closed firmware. Dell usually uses Intel NICs and they’re usually pretty solid and well supported.

    Check to make sure that the NIC is enabled in BIOS.

    If you have/had Windows on this PC, did it work there?

    Does the NIC show in lspci or ip a ?

    Try an external USB NIC. Or an internal PCIe one if you’re comfortable with that.







  • If companies don’t push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.

    So…what’ll probably happen:

    • Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
    • A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
    • A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
    • A year will go by and it’s a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of “stealing” the feature. Everyone else will despise it.