Josh Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 My new PC has an ethernet card in the motherboard that does not have Ubuntu 12.04 drivers by default. I don't want to mess around trying to install a new driver. Can you recommend a PCI-E ethernet card I can add that will be compatible with Ubuntu 12.04? Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyj Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Who is your current manufacturer? Drivers should be available on their website. Run lspci to see full ethernet info. As far as PCI Express cards go, I'd recommend anything in the server space. Enterprise hardware has a better chance at working in Linux than consumer grade.http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_dcat=20318&Brand=Dell&_nkw=PCI+Express+ethernet&_sop=15 You can change the brand if you want. Something IBM, HP, Dell would all work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share Posted June 6, 2017 I know but I just want something that Ubuntu 12.04 supports by default. I am afraid of Linux drivers. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpEcIeS Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 A little off topic, but why 12.04, as it is end of life as of 2017.04.28? Quote SpEcIeS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share Posted June 6, 2017 Because they completely changed the multiarch stuff in 13 and I can't compile Leadwerks on it. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyj Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Run this commend in terminal and I'll help you find the right driver. lspci | grep Ethernet You should see something similar to this: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express Linux drivers are really just kernel modules. They operate in /dev/ file path much like a file would with open, read, write commands, they also support ioctl commands for passing parameters and other use cases. Way less complicated than windows tbh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpEcIeS Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 On 06/06/2017 at 7:08 AM, Josh said: Because they completely changed the multiarch stuff in 13 and I can't compile Leadwerks on it. My apologies, but the "stuff" is referring to libraries? Surely my ignorance to the Leadwerks compiling process for GNU/Linux must be apparent to you, however, with my limited knowledge for compiling Leadwerks on GNU/Linux, would it not make more sense to compile for the SteamOS, therefore Debian Jessie? Not trying to downplay the compiling process, but only trying to gain a greater understanding. Quote SpEcIeS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 The way multiarch libs work changed dramatically in Ubuntu 13. I don't know how or if this relates to the rest of the Linux ecosystem. Leadwerks 5 will be 64-bit only. Until then, I will continue to use Ubuntu 12.04 to compile on. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 I think the Intel Gigabit CT(a sub 30 USD card) works As for the multiarch lib change, Ubuntu 12.04 actually had a lot of ground work done with a full migration on the user facing stuff with 12.10 and grater. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiArch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 I gave up on the multi-arch stuff and I have two installs of Ubuntu 16.04 32 and 64 bit to compile on now. Works much better. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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