I’m gonna need a list of all these jokes to keep track of continuity

Sorry, figured it would be an easy shorthand. But with so many different distros out there, I can see how that could be seen as just another one of those. I’ll keep that in mind in the future.

Lol, I AM using Linux for the first time. But yea, I’m trying to use the most user-friendly things to accomplish what I want to do. Thanks anyway for trying. :)

ifconfig gives "command not found, but can be installed with sudo apt net-tools. That command gives me "Temporary failure resolving ‘archive.ubuntu.com’

ip addr gives:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu ##### qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000

link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute

valid_lft forever preffered_lft forever

2: wlp02s20f3: <BROADCAST, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

link/ether [MAC Address] brd [IPv6 MAC Address]

4: enx949aa9857457: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

link/ether [MAC Address] brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Ubi is just my short-hand for Ubuntu. And I’d love to be able to install Network-Manager, but I can’t/dont know a work-around

the Wifi adapter is recognized, but if I try to ping ANYTHING, including the gateway, I get “ping: connect: network is unreachable”

I dont see anything standing out.

usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd

usb 4-2: new USB device found: idVendor , idProduct, bcdDevice

usb 4-2: new USB Device Strings: mfr=1 product=2, serialnumber=6

usb 4-2: Product: Ethernet Adapter

usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Microsoft

usb 4-2: SerialNumber: xxxxxxxxxx

usbcore: registered new device driver r8152-cfgselector

r8152-cfgselector 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB Device number 2 using xhci_hcd

r8152 4-2:1.0: load rtl8153b-2 v2 successfully

r8152 4-2:1.0 eth0: v1.12.13

usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152

usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether

r8152 4-2:1.0 enx949aa22353: renamed from eth0

Yes. It sees it as “Ethernet Adapter - Microsoft”

I was following this walk-through (https://lemmy.world/post/6542543) for getting Docker and all its container apps set up, so that’s why I went with Ubi Server. I downloaded 24.04 as its the latest version. Would Mint be able to substitute Server for those things?

My Daily Driver has Mint on it and its working just fine. If I can use Mint instead of Server, that’d make things so much easier.

When I try [sudo nmtui] it gives me "Command nmtui not found, but can be installed with: [sudo apt install network-manager].

Which circles me back to my original problem where I don’t have network connectivity.

Well there’s your problem. You’ve got to plug it back in!