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Ethernet (Wired) Internet Not Working

lscstu22

Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:07:46 pm

My usb wifi dongle works fine, but the ethernet wired internet connection doesn't work.

Code:
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 eth
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:15b8] (rev 31)
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7984]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF104 [GeForce GTX 460] [10de:0e22] (rev a1)

Code:
sudo lshw -C network
  *-network UNCLAIMED     
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1f.6
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6
       version: 31
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:de200000-de21ffff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       bus info: usb@1:8
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 74:da:38:41:45:80
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192cu driverversion=3.13.0-32-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.0.0.76 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

I'm not sure what driver I need... I think maybe this? Any help is appreciated :)

EDIT: Updated info commands to hopefully be more helpful based on this thread.

Swarfendor437

Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:19:06 am

Hi, please be patient and wait for madvinegar to respond

lscstu22

Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:46:54 am

Swarfendor437 wrote:Hi, please be patient and wait for madvinegar to respond

Swarf! :D No problem my man. I'll post the PC specs if it helps:

MOBO: MSI Z170A Gaming Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz X4
RAM: Corsair 16GB DDR4 2666MHz
SSD: Mushkin Reactor 1TB 7mm
GFX: EVGA GeForce GTX 460 1G
PSU: Thermaltake SMART M850W

Swarfendor437

Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:04:36 pm

The main thing madvinegar requires is in your first post I think!