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Just set up linux on a machine recently with an Intel network chipset. Mint had no driver that supported it so I ended up having to build from source. I can't i

Just set up linux on a machine recently with an Intel network chipset. Mint had no driver that supported it so I ended up having to build from source. I can't imagine trying to understand that process if one is not a developer

stormbrew 10y ago
This is... very strange. What Intel chipset was it that didn't have a driver built into the kernel? That's usually your safest bet.
- etimberg 10y ago
  I think the issue was that I was installing from a Mint 17 bootable USB but I needed the driver to be able to upgrade to 18. The ethernet controller is an Intel I219-LM (rev 31). The driver source that worked was https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCI-E-Gigabit-Network-Connections-under-Linux- https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817/Intel-Networ... What I had hoped would happen during install was that the kernel would fall back to some simple driver, kinda like the simple VGA drivers, and then find the correct driver and install that.
  - stormbrew 10y ago
    Sadly there's no basic compatibility layer for NICs, except in so far as many small manufacturers emulate some specific well known NIC. Intel doesn't really do that, though. But they do tend to update the drivers in linux pretty quickly themselves, which is what makes them attractive for linux use.
herbst 10y ago
FYI mint sucks with these things. Badly. Their driver support seems more random than anything. That said i am pretty sure i remember some kind of bloat kernel in their repos which ships with all the relevant stuff.
- Kliment 10y ago
  There's an official ubuntu mate flavor now which is everything I enjoyed about mint with none of the things I disliked about it, so I'd recommend trying that.
swah 10y ago
Installed Ubuntu 16.04 yesterday and could not get graphics acceleration to work on Android's emulator. This should be the ideal environment for working with Android... I cannot understand people that think Ubuntu is on par with OSX and Windows for workstation use.

stormbrew 10y ago

This is... very strange. What Intel chipset was it that didn't have a driver built into the kernel? That's usually your safest bet.

etimberg 10y ago
I think the issue was that I was installing from a Mint 17 bootable USB but I needed the driver to be able to upgrade to 18. The ethernet controller is an Intel I219-LM (rev 31). The driver source that worked was https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCI-E-Gigabit-Network-Connections-under-Linux- https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817/Intel-Networ... What I had hoped would happen during install was that the kernel would fall back to some simple driver, kinda like the simple VGA drivers, and then find the correct driver and install that.
- stormbrew 10y ago
  Sadly there's no basic compatibility layer for NICs, except in so far as many small manufacturers emulate some specific well known NIC. Intel doesn't really do that, though. But they do tend to update the drivers in linux pretty quickly themselves, which is what makes them attractive for linux use.

herbst 10y ago

FYI mint sucks with these things. Badly. Their driver support seems more random than anything. That said i am pretty sure i remember some kind of bloat kernel in their repos which ships with all the relevant stuff.

Kliment 10y ago
There's an official ubuntu mate flavor now which is everything I enjoyed about mint with none of the things I disliked about it, so I'd recommend trying that.

swah 10y ago

Installed Ubuntu 16.04 yesterday and could not get graphics acceleration to work on Android's emulator. This should be the ideal environment for working with Android... I cannot understand people that think Ubuntu is on par with OSX and Windows for workstation use.