How do I get the adapter to work?
I can’t see an IP address in my router; it’s not working. The adapter works perfectly with my Windows 11 PC.
Gemini AI says the adapter must work with Linux plug and play.
I found this but I don’t understand it at all and apparently there’s no solution.
Is there a simple plug-and-play solution, because I’m not familiar with this?
the solution is to configure the adapter. By default the onboard adapter is configured only.
Check ip a on your system to see if both are recognized
What exactly do I need to do to get the adapter to work?
dietpi@DietPi:\~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 2c:cf:XXXXXXXXX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.8.200/24 brd 192.168.8.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 2003:XXXXXXXXXXXXX/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr proto kernel_ra
valid_lft 14080sec preferred_lft 1480sec
inet6 fe80::2ecf:67ff:fea9:26fb/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 6c:1f:f7:XXXXXX9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Start dietpi-network, select and configure eth1, assuming this is the external adapter. When selecting “apply”, it will throw a warning that eth0 is conflicting. Choose to disable eth0 to continue. So eth1 will be used instead of eth0.
That worked perfectly, thank you for the quick help.