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?

  • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 year ago

    This has happened to me on Debian. Try changing your DNS to 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare’s public DNS) and seeing if that fixes anything.

    I don’t know what causes this or why it works, but there’s always a DNS name resolution failure on my system if I don’t manually set a DNS.