2012/12/26 Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, E.S. Rosenberg > <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: >> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum... >> >> I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me >> to install one more package for wired communication (wireless >> [different chip, also atheros] worked out of the box): >> >> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast >> Ethernet (rev 10) >> >> The weird thing was that the driver detection program didn't realize this... >> >> Either way the package that provides the 'alx' driver on Ubuntu 12.10 is: >> linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic >> > > Thanks. I'll try to get a copy of the package to try to install > locally if the driver does not work. Note that that is a meta-package that installs the kernel specific package, so you'll need to download at least the kernel specific one and the meta package is good to make sure that after a kernel upgrade you still have the drivers. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com
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