Networking problems installing Qubes 3.2 on Intel NUC7i3BNH

[new...@protonmail.ch]

Hi,

I have been frustrated trying to get Qubes fully up and running on the Intel NUC7i3BNH. Strangely, I could not get the install working in Legacy mode. In EFI mode, the installation went through, but Qubes would not boot until I copied the EFI boot files over using the instructions for UEFI troubleshooting (under "Boot device not recognised after installing").

(1) I still get an error on boot that says EFI_MEMMAP is not enabled and an error that goes by very quickly that says:

[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Do I need to worry about this? How can I fix this?

(2) However, the system does indeed boot, and I am prompted to enter my LUKS pw and user pw. But, Ethernet is not functioning. I have tried the suggestions mentioned already:
in sys-net,
(a) linux-firmware-20160609-66.gita44bc811.fc23.noarch is installed.
(b) lspci shows that Intel I219-V rev 21 is there
(c) ifconfig does not show ethX in sys-net

I have tried to manually load e1000e / e1000 using modprobe. but no luck.

Any pointers please in how to get networking working? Really frustrated as a new Qubes user was really looking forward to this fantastic OS!.

TIA!

[new...@protonmail.ch]

P.S. when I manually load e1000e or e1000 I do not get any errors. It just shows:
e1000e: Intel Pro/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k
e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation

[Unman]

You can just ignore those warnings on boot.
On the network issue, I don't think this is really a Qubes problem. It's
an issue with the I219 and affects both Fedora and Debian - a quick
search confirms this.

What's worked for me in the past is using the driver from Intel:the
I218-LM has a driver for linux (look on downloadcenter.intel.com), which
will give you a v3.3.5.3 e1000e driver - Jessie with kernel 4.4.67-12
has v3.2.6.
Download the driver, extract from tar archive, make install. (I should
say I haven't done this in a qube, and you'll need the kernel-headers to
match your kernel, but it should be straightforward.)

On the other hand, trying one of the newer kernels might equally fix it
for you.

unman

[new...@protonmail.ch]

Thank you Unman. Given that I could not download the required packages on the Qubes pc, I downloaded them to an identical pc running Fedora 24. Having compiled the Intel drivers, I now have a 3.3.5.3 version of the e1000e.ko.

However, how do I install it into the fedora23 template in Qubes? The /lib/modules/... is readonly and I was unable to mount it as rw to copy the file over. Apologies in advance as this is a newbie question. I have the file in the QubesIncoming directory in the fedora23 template.

Many thanks!
-neword

[wannabe...@gmail.com]

I am having the same NUC NIC issue with the NUC7i7BNH