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    [System] Stuck in catch-22 nightmare. Need 'make to install network driver. No internet.

    As above, I need to compile the driver for my NIC (Intel 82579V)

    However for some reason the fresh install of 18.04 does not include make .

    See my problem? I need make to compile my network driver, but I need my network driver in order to download and install make

    This is seriously a bit of an over sight and I can't see the reason why such and old NIC is not supported not why make is not included by default ?
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    As above I'm running 18.04 .

    I sourced it through kubuntu.org
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      Are you sure you need to build the driver? I have an 82579LM, not sure how similar it is to yours. It has been a while, but I think I had to manually create a new connection, I seem to recall it not automatically configuring one.

      If that is not helpful, run this to see if there is a nic detected:
      Code:
      sudo lshw -class network
      Look for the 'driver=', it should be (I think) e1000e

      Make is on the disk, if you browse around the 'pool' dir), you should just need to locate the deb file and double click, I do not think make has any dependencies to install.
      I really do not think it is a missing driver, as I see plenty of search hits (old) that seem to indicate it works.
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        Originally posted by claydoh View Post
        Are you sure you need to build the driver? I have an 82579LM, not sure how similar it is to yours. It has been a while, but I think I had to manually create a new connection, I seem to recall it not automatically configuring one.

        If that is not helpful, run this to see if there is a nic detected:
        Code:
        sudo lshw -class network
        Look for the 'driver=', it should be (I think) e1000e

        Make is on the disk, if you browse around the 'pool' dir), you should just need to locate the deb file and double click, I do not think make has any dependencies to install.
        I really do not think it is a missing driver, as I see plenty of search hits (old) that seem to indicate it works.
        Okay, so that command sees my NIC. However it says "*-network UNCLAIMED"
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          I fixed it by doing two things:

          Downloading the latest drive from Intel's website.

          Following the instructions here:
          https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....9#post13623259
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