[CentOS] Centos7 Net install on HP A1710N fails

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On 11/11/14 01:37, david wrote:
> At 03:23 PM 11/8/2014, you wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The command to display the vendor:device PCI ID is:
>> >
>> > lspci -nn | grep -i net
>>
>> That was just for the ethernet device. Remove the grep part and you'll
>> get the IDs for other hardware.
>>
>> Akemi
> 
> 
> Using the LiveCD for Centos 7, the network was "Unknown".  The results
> of the lscpi command gave
> 
> 00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: Nvidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller
> [10DE:0269] (Revision A3)
> 
> However, we could not "define" the ethernet controller and make it usable.
> 
> David


Thank you for the information.

You need the kmod-forcedeth driver from elrepo.org for that device:

http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-forcedeth-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

Download and install the driver after installing CentOS 7.

Hope that helps.