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?

    • SecretSauces@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      the Wifi adapter is recognized, but if I try to ping ANYTHING, including the gateway, I get “ping: connect: network is unreachable”

      • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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        5 months ago

        Is your IP address 169.254.x.y by any chance? That would mean you can actually “see” the network but have no usable address (169.254.x.y is APIPA, you could say a fallback basically when no dhcp is available). Try “ip addr” on the commandline or “ifconfig” for us oldtimers

        • SecretSauces@lemmy.worldOP
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          5 months ago

          ifconfig gives "command not found, but can be installed with sudo apt net-tools. That command gives me "Temporary failure resolving ‘archive.ubuntu.com’

          ip addr gives:

          1: lo: <LOOPBACK, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu ##### qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000

link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute

valid_lft forever preffered_lft forever

2: wlp02s20f3: <BROADCAST, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

link/ether [MAC Address] brd [IPv6 MAC Address]

4: enx949aa9857457: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

link/ether [MAC Address] brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
          • scrion@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            Your USB ethernet adapter is down according to this output.

            In case Ubuntu server comes with e. g. dhclient installed, you should be able to get a working network connection by ensuring a cable is properly plugged into your USB ethernet adapter and running

            sudo dhclient -v enx949aa9857457

            You might want to post the output of that command here. Alternatively, configure the USB adapter using one of the management tools mentioned in this thread already.