This is my first time messing with Linux so please forgive my ignorance.

I have an HP Elitebook 840 G8 that I’ve installed Ubi server on. I was trying to install a GUI on it, so I tried pulling the SLiM package from the web, but got "Temporary Failure resolving ‘Archive.ubuntu.com’.

This laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet Port, so I have to use a Microsoft USB-Ethernet dongle. But I haven’t been successful in getting that to work.

Is there a way for me to manually download the driver on a USB, then load it that way?

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    If you have an android phone and a usb cable for it, use usb tethering!

    Connect it to the PC, and in android under connections switch to “usb tethering” under usb options.

    But if you dont even have networkmanager installed (which is really really odd) then no idea if autoconnect works, likely not.