Hello, wr_Intel.
Thank you very much for your response.
The vendor, which is Positivo, shipped the system with an OEM Mandriva distribution.
The problem is it happens to be a lousy distribution for software development. Seems that it's not even supported anymore.
Do you, perhaps, have a list of Linux distributions that have passed a compatibility test on this particular hardware (the I217-V wired network card)?
or maybe a list of other OEM distributions that you are aware that do support your hardware (except for Mandriva though )?
Thank you very much for your help.
I'll move from Ubuntu now and test openSUSE and Fedora.
Thales Vaz Maciel, Sc.M.