I had installed initially with Debian as default after updating I lost my wired connection to sysnet. I reinstalled with Fedora as default (which I initially intended to do) now unable to connect at all to sysnet. I’m not a computer scientist but could it possibly be driver related or lack of I shou…

Hi Whatamidoinghere Can you share the version of Qubes OS / debian / fedora you are using/testing? – from your other post 1 , it sounded like you only had dom0 and never saw the “Initial Setup” screen. :slight_smile:

I used that command to get me to the initial install. That was in 4.3.0 now I’m on 4.3.1

Do you have sys-net qube in your system? If yes, then are you able to start it or is it fails to start?

It’s there just says disconnected in light gray under wired and wireless is disconnected and right click won’t bring up any options or even exit.

Illon the initial install selections should I make sysnet disposable? IDK if that has anything to do with my connection issues or the purpose of that anyways. I’m just shooting in the dark at this point lol

[image] Whatamidoinghere: It’s there just says disconnected in light gray under wired and wireless is disconnected and right click won’t bring up any options or even exit. What PCI devices are attached to sys-net? Maybe there is a problem with drivers for your network controllers and that’s …

Do you mean like wireless mouse and keyboard?

No, I mean Ethernet controller or Wireless network controller PCI devices. [image] [VM-name]: Qube Settings - How to use PCI devices This page is part of device handling in qubes . | This page is part of device handling in qubes. Warning: Only dom0 exposes PCI devices. Some of them are …

I have it just hard wired which worked at first then it dropped off and was using wireless which isn’t being recognized now either so I tried to install extender that came with the board which isn’t being recognized either. [17873822720674953369726164388611]

What devices are listed in the sys-net’s Qube Settings → Devices tab under “Devices always connected to this qube”?

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