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I'm currently attempting to install 14.1 on a new computer via USB. No Wireless. It's plugged into the ethernet port on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX mother board with an AMD FX-6350 3.9 GHz 6 core processor. I tried 14.04 but it wouldn't even boot, when I looked into that it appeared to be a conflict with the mobo or processor. Right now I'm just running from the "try ubuntu before you install" option. I'd like to be connected to the internet before I consider installing. I'm not super familiar with the ubuntu terminal but I'm not afraid to mess with it. The network works properly on both wired and wireless Windows 7 and 8 machines connected.

Things I've tried:

-rebooting and resetting my modem and router -manually entering my ipv4, it says it connects but I get no internet connection. I've triple checked to ensure I got it right -adding 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to the DNS servers -resetting networking with sudo service network-manager restart, nothing. -pinging my ip (64 bytes from (IP): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.025 ms) over and over until stopped

Probably a few other things that I can't remember right now. Any help would be appreciated!

Droolizmo
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You're booting a 64-bit kernel and I think the VIA USB controller driver wants some kind of IOMMU, try booting with iommu=soft parameter. It worked for me on Ubuntu 15.04

Sylvain Pineau
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Marius
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I have two ideas of which I recommend you plan on trying both. My first thought was that you should prepare another USB install thumbdrive, this time using 12.04, and I suggest that only because there seem to be a lot of complaints about 14.04. My second thought may be better though. I suggest you make a second install thumbdrive, but this time the same version you are attempting already. The reason is that I've seen install thumbdrives fail to write properly. Use a new thumbdrive, as the drives themselves can be flaky, and preferably download a fresh copy of the ISO file as well, in case it is corrupt.

I'm not a huge fan of Gigabyte brand motherboards, but they don't typically display the problems you are describing.

gyropyge
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