This is my first time messing with Linux so please forgive my ignorance.

I have an HP Elitebook 840 G8 that I’ve installed Ubuntu server on. I was trying to install a GUI on it, so I tried pulling the SLiM package from the web, but got "Temporary Failure resolving ‘Archive.ubuntu.com’.

This laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet Port, so I have to use a Microsoft USB-Ethernet dongle. But I haven’t been successful in getting that to work.

Is there a way for me to manually download the driver on a USB, then load it that way?

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    • According to this WiFi should work with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64 Bit Did you install 24.04 or 22.04 ?

    • I’d expect most USB devices to work out of the box. Did you try : sudo dhclient ?

    Easiest is probably to perform an installation that comes with a GUI. If the default Ubuntu installation iso is too large, there’s for example Lubuntu.