Steam OS First Startup cant find internet

[TehWoodlingCriter]

Hi

so... My windows got corrupted, and i installed SteamOS but on first startup the sound cracks and sounds echos. i put my lenguage, my location (mexico)...

AND THEN in Network Settings it says "Select Network" and nothing shows up (i use ethernet)

Here my Specs

CPU intel core i5 4670k

GPU AMD Radeon Sapphire R9 290 trix oc

MOBO Asus Z97-C

HDD: Segregate Barracuda 1tb

RAM: 12 GB 1600 MHZ

PSU: 900 Watt something I dont remember

Thanks, ^^ Have a Kawaii Day

 

[skittle]

Your hardware is too new to use steamos. Steamos is built on an slightly older Linux kernel and does not have drivers for your hardware yet.

Use the latest ubuntu14.10 beta and install steam and I suspect your issues will go away.

 

[swiftleeo]

I know I'm a bit late but have you tried running dhcpcd to detect your ethernet?

It may be a shot in the dark, but I use Arch Linux (which is pretty awesome) and you have to configure the ethernet when setting it up.

Anyways, just go ahead and try running "sudo dhcpcd" and see if that works. Then you can try using "sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd.service" and "sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd@yourethernetname.service (could be eth0, but it differs if you have a router)

I could see graphics not working on an older Linux Kernel but I'm using an i7 4790k with a R9 290 (same card as you) on Arch linux with no problem with ethernet or anything.

 

[skittle]

I know I'm a bit late but have you tried running dhcpcd to detect your ethernet?

It may be a shot in the dark, but I use Arch Linux (which is pretty awesome) and you have to configure the ethernet when setting it up.

Anyways, just go ahead and try running "sudo dhcpcd" and see if that works. Then you can try using "sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd.service" and "sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd@yourethernetname.service (could be eth0, but it differs if you have a router)

I could see graphics not working on an older Linux Kernel but I'm using an i7 4790k with a R9 290 (same card as you) on Arch linux with no problem with ethernet or anything.

Yes your hardware works because ArchLinux is on kernel 3.16.
SteamOS is on kernel 3.10.
Support for R290/Hawaii was added in kernel 3.13
Probably a similar situation for the Ethernet and Sound drivers.

Please remember that Arch is a bleeding edge distrobution. Very different than Debian/Ubuntu/SteamOS.
When practically all drivers for a computer are built into the kernel, you can see why using old kernel with new hardware may not work well!