blanchae
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Here's a documented procedure by Ben M. that he shared with me on how he fixed his unsupported CentOS NIC driver:
Problem:
New computer does not have network driver and therefore cannot install Asterisk since Asterisk is downloaded off of the Internet.
Solution:
Problem:
New computer does not have network driver and therefore cannot install Asterisk since Asterisk is downloaded off of the Internet.
Solution:
- Find proper Linux network driver for this computer (in this case using an Asus motherboard with a network port attached needed the AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz file). Difficult to find however with google it was found in the end.
- Copying the driver file onto a flash drive (to make things easy have the driver be the only file on the flash drive)
- Making the directory (You may need to login as root first)
• sudo bash
• mkdir /media/usb - Mount the flash drive to the new directory (the usb drive was known to the computer as sdb1)
• mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb - After being mounted change to the new directory
• cd /media/usb - The file then needed to be unpacked using the command:
• tar xvzf /media/usb/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz - Install the driver module
• make install - Reboot and you should be good to go!