Intel I219-V NIC not detected

[Dakado]

I am trying to install debian on a new PC with Intel I219-V NIC, however it says that no network devices are detected during installation and it offers me a list of NIC card drivers, when I select e1000e nothing happens, it only blinks and again, list of all drivers is displayed.

I even tried to manually compile driver (on a different PC with exactly the same kernel and debian version) and then enable it using modprobe but I still do not have access to LAN or Internet. File /etc/network/interfaces is empty, just "lo" interface is there.

I tried to install windows 10 to check if it is not a hardware error, and on windows 10 the NIC works just fine.

[Dakado]

I finished the installation without NIC card, then I downloaded the official driver from intel (e1000e) and loaded it successfully into kernel using modprobe. However my /etc/network/interfaces is still empty, only local loopback is there.

How do I know what is the name of the interfaces for the NIC or how do I know that the NIC is working after I loaded the driver ? Any commands to actually check that ?

[ticojohn]

How do I know what is the name of the interfaces for the NIC or how do I know that the NIC is working after I loaded the driver ? Any commands to actually check that ?

Check with hwinfo.

[Dakado]

How do I know what is the name of the interfaces for the NIC or how do I know that the NIC is working after I loaded the driver ? Any commands to actually check that ?

Check with hwinfo.

This is unknown command for my system. And I cannot install it via apt, because I do not have internet access.

[4D696B65]

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ip link

will show the name
add

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allow-hotplug <name>
iface <name> inet dhcp

to your /etc/network/interfaces

[peter_irich]

Perhaps your e1000e is not newest?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... o-b-laptop

Peter.

[Dakado]

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ip link

will show the name
add

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allow-hotplug <name>
iface <name> inet dhcp

to your /etc/network/interfaces

There is nothing in the "ip link" command, just "lo" interface.

[Dakado]

Perhaps your e1000e is not newest?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... o-b-laptop

Peter.

I downloaded latest today from here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... ducts.html

[Dakado]

I managed to solve it, I posted solution on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment ... _manually/

[peter_irich]

Then, perhaps, igb driver is not enough new? If it used, of course.

Peter.