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Jonas
Asked: 2013-05-05 08:50:41 +0800 CST

No network interfaces detected when installing Ubuntu Server on Mac Mini [duplicate]

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I have a new Mac Mini (MacMini6,1 late 2012) that I would like to install Ubuntu Server 13.04 (ubuntu-13.04-server-amd64+mac.iso) on. But it seems like Ubuntu Server isn't able to detect my network interface, because I get the message:

No network interfaces detected

How can I fix this issue? Is there any module or driver that I can add for this?

I have now tried to install Ubuntu Server with the build-essentials package and downloaded source to the tg3-driver as suggested in the answers. But when compiling (with the make command) I get errors:

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cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [/home/jonas/tg3-3.129d/tg3.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/jonas/tg3-3.129d] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic`
make: *** [default] Error 2

Any suggestions?

system-installation

2 Answers

  1. Go into bios; check to see if Virtualization (VT-d) is enabled. Try again. If that doesnt work...

    Get driver here: http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtreme_desktop.php Copy to USB disk and configure.

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  2. I have been trying to install Ubuntu on my Mac Mini, and been having all sorts of problems, one of which is Network. So here is what I did.

    I updated the firmware

    Then I installed Ubuntu without network, and when the installation was done, I downloaded and installed the driver, and it all worked OK.

    Now, my Mini is a G4 mini, and of course with different hardware. The links included are for your machine, but do make sure of the firmware before you update it. I don't know that this will work for you, but it did for me. You can try and see if it'll work for you.

    To compile the driver:

    Inside the tg3-3.129d.tar.gz file, there's a readme.txt that has the instructions. Make and all that you need to install are inside the tg3-3.129d.tar.gz file.

    Here what I did. I made sure that I disconnected LAN. I copied the file to my Downloads folder, right clicked on the file, and clicked on extract here. The I went to the extracted folder, from terminal, and typed:

    make

    That compiled the driver for my Kernel. Inside the file one of the steps says to do cd src, I didn't do that, just typed make at the prompt, and that did it.

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