I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a more recent motherboard. Debian failed to detect the network card with the E1000 drivers.
I tried an iso with the non free repo without success. A base Ubuntu iso install was able to detect and configure the network driver. I'll see if I can find the adapter version. It was an Intel based adapter. On Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 4:12 PM Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: > I recently bought an intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1. You can see a description > of the product at Newegg: > https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102213 > > I’m trying to install Debian Stretch on it > debian-9.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > and (later) > firmware-9.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > > I made a bootable USB stick the usual way with dd to copy the iso to the > stick. It boots fine and loads some preliminary stuff. When it gets to > trying to identify the network interface, it fails at that task and drops > into a screen with a long list of network drivers for me to choose from. > > I didn’t know what driver to load (the Newegg description says it uses an > Intel networking chip, but I didn’t know which driver was needed by that > chip) So I aborted the installation. On a hunch, I then tried to install > Ubuntu (ubuntu-mate-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso) and that works fine. The > network comes up automatically. > > So, on Ubuntu, I typed “lspci -v” and searched the output for the network > interface. It says that the driver installed for that interface is > “e1000e”. A quick check on a working Stretch system shows that the e1000e > driver *is* available in Debian. So, I think to myself, “Problem solved — > all I have to do is specify the e1000e driver and all will be well!” > > Not so fast… I boot the Debian “firmware-9.6…” stick and it gets to the > list of drivers. I pick e1000e (with is there, along with a bunch of other > Intel drivers) and go back to see if it now can see the interface. Nope! > It still isn’t seeing the network. > > > What am I missing? What is Ubuntu doing to make this work that Debian > doesn’t? > > > Anybody got any suggestions??? > > Thanks in advance, > Rick > >
