Re: Installing NordVPN on ClearOS router

I presume for ClearOS you are substituting "yum" for "apt-get"?

It is impossible to see from those instructions to see what is being installed. Normally you'd try starting OpenVPN with a systend command like "systemctl start openvpn@ovpn_udp/us842.nordvpn.com.udp.ovpn"

The real problem I have is that the instructions are probably for a standalone instance of Linux rather than a Linux router so I have no idea how it would route packetc. ClearOS do have an ibVPN app available which sorts this out, but it is for a different provider.

Note that if you use UEFI to boot, the correct command to regenerate grub is:Running the other command won't have harmed anything, but won't help either.

Re: Intel x520 not being shown as an available NIC.

Ouch. Have a read of this and this.

There is a command "dmesg" where you may be able to search for the error. You can also look in /var/log/dmesg.

Ouch. Have a read of this and this.

There is a command "dmesg" where you may be able to search for the error. You can also look in /var/log/dmesg.

So what about the output I asked for?

You have double-NAT so could be causing yourself all sorts of problems. I don't know how to troubleshoot it. The problem could be ClearOS or the Fritzbox of just your network topology.

BTW you have posted into a 10 year old thread about a version of ClearOS that has been end of life for years. Wouldn't it have been better to start a new thread?

Command slightly amended to upgrade the paid Gateway Management and DNSThingy to pull in the correct repos.

I presume for ClearOS you are substituting "yum" for "apt-get"?

It is impossible to see from those instructions to see what is being installed. Normally you'd try starting OpenVPN with a systend command like "systemctl start openvpn@ovpn_udp/us842.nordvpn.com.udp.ovpn"

The real problem I have is that the instructions are probably for a standalone instance of Linux rather than a Linux router so I have no idea how it would route packetc. ClearOS do have an ibVPN app available which sorts this out, but it is for a different provider.

Hmm. I was looking at the wrong PCI ID. I should have been looking at [8086:154d] and the built in module should have been OK, but there is no harm with the kmod one. Curious that it is still not loading.

What happens if you do a:Then the output fromThis may take a bit of googling.

What that is showing you is that there are no lines "Kernel driver in use" so it has not picked up a driver. From the NIC name and your output, the driver required is the ixgbe, but if you do a "modinfo ixgbe" it does not show compatible PCI ID's (8086:7b11). Also modinfo shows the driver is quite an old version compared to Intel's site. Compiling drivers from source is not so neat as they need to be recompiled for every kernel update. Fortunately there is a group called ElRepo who maintain a bunch of drivers with a slight modification so they try and survive a kernel update. You can get the ixgbe-kmod driver from one of their mirrors like here. Either set up their repo and install it from there, or just download it and install it locally:Then it may just work or you may need to reboot to bring it into use.

The driver should not need updating through all the ClearOS 7.7 line. It may or may not survive if 7.8 comes out. We won't know until the kernel is released. If it won't survive the upgrade, ElRepo should re-release it.