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<div>I successfully installed Parabola for the first time in my virtual machine. The only issue is that I don't have internet access. I read through the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration/Ethernet#Device_driver">Network configuration entry</a> in the Arch Wiki, and found out that my Ethernet card wasn't being recognized. After booting into my newly installed Parabola system, I ran<span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> lspci -v </span>and noted that my Ethernet kernel module is<span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> e1000 </span>(it's an Intel card, apparently it's <a href="https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCIe-Intel-Gigabit-Ethernet-Network-Connections-Under-Linux-?wapkw=e1000">this one</a>), then I ran<span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> dmesg | grep e1000</span>, and as expected nothing showed up, so I assumed it wasn't loaded. Then, <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_module#Manual_module_handling">as this Arch Wiki entry</a> suggested, I ran<span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> modprobe e1000</span>, but it gave me the following errors:<br><br><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">modprobe: FATAL: Module e1000 not found in directory /lib/modules/5.4.12-gnu-1</span><br><br>At first I thought of downloading the module directly from Intel's website, but it requires that I<span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> make install </span>it, and when I tried it I got a lot of different errors. But then I realized that perhaps compiling it wasn't necessary, the rationale being that within the Parabola live installation ISO I had stable Ethernet connection, so I tried the<span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> dmesg | grep e1000 </span>command while within the live Parabola and it returned the following:<br><br><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">[ 4.031943] e1000: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.21-k8-NAPI</span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">[ 4.031943] e1000: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.</span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">[ 4.415594] e1000 0000:00:03.0 eth0: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 08:00:27:d4:6d:4d</span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">[ 4.415598] e1000 0000:00:03.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection</span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">[ 7.046096] e1000 0000:00:03.0 enp0s3: renamed from eth0</span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">[ 10.162081] e1000: enp0s3 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX</span></div><div><br></div><div>I know that drivers in general are a pain in the ***, since these drivers are (I think?) proprietary. But noticing that the live ISO had internet access gave me hope.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Any help is greatly appreciated, I hope I gave sufficient information for debugging. Thanks in advance!<br></div></div> </body>
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