02-16-2016, 02:00 PM
Again, thanks for the replies. By way of updates - this was a stock off-the-shelf Ubuntu install that the vendor did when they built the system. On the old system I had the Nvidia driver for a GT 640 card and that driver takes to the 970 just fine.
BTW for the heck of it I went and got the latest disk image of a current, non-Ubuntu based distro (heresy, I realize, but in the name of problem solving)! ;D Booted it off the DVD and it sees the Ethernet fine.
I get the bit about upgrading the kernel. Wirezfree's command line apt-get makes perfect sense - if I could talk to the ethernet card to do it from within LL. A chicken-and-egg problem. I suppose if one could download all the requisite files to either a flash drive or DVD drive and use that as a source to upgrade the kernel with - that would bypass the need for the 'net. Is this do-able?
BTW for the heck of it I went and got the latest disk image of a current, non-Ubuntu based distro (heresy, I realize, but in the name of problem solving)! ;D Booted it off the DVD and it sees the Ethernet fine.
I get the bit about upgrading the kernel. Wirezfree's command line apt-get makes perfect sense - if I could talk to the ethernet card to do it from within LL. A chicken-and-egg problem. I suppose if one could download all the requisite files to either a flash drive or DVD drive and use that as a source to upgrade the kernel with - that would bypass the need for the 'net. Is this do-able?