Thursday, January 14, 2016

CentOS 7 - No network device detected

While installing CentOS 7 on older hardware, I found a solution to the problem where the network device is not automatically detected during or after the system install.

Following some searching on google, the following forum post gave me the solution to this problem.  http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/200029

"This device uses the forcedeth driver which is disabled in the CentOS 7 kernel.
You can use the kmod-forcedeth driver from elrepo.org:
http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-forcedeth-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm"

As the answer states, it is simply a matter of installing the RPM and rebooting the system.  To do this, I downloaded the file to a USB stick and ran the yum localinstall command as such:

# yum localinstall /run/media/.../kmod-forcedeth-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm


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