Re: SL5.4 and Asus eee S101 netbook
William Lutter wrote: I've installed SL5.4 on an ASUS eee S101 netbook that my lab has purchased. Reviews say Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 work flawlessly (Ubuntu). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220595 I usually use SL, so I've installed 5.4. lscpi indicates that the ethernet controler is Atheros (AR8121 ...) and wireless is atheros (AR928X). There are no atheros entries in the other card adaptor lists in the network configuration submenus. So, neither the ethernet card nor wireless adaptors are recognized? The README file from downloading atheros driver from madwifi shows latest download is 2/08. README says lspci should show it as unknown and a 0x168x vendor ID. lspci -v indicates both ethernet (8324) and wireless (1a3b:1067) are unknown devices. I'm guessing madwifi is not going to not work. Looks like I need special software. For lab usage, I don't need networking. It would be nice to update software etc. I'd install ubuntu if it gave me networking capability and which is not available via current RHEL5 SL distro. thoughts? Bill Lutter This may be of help for the wireless (ath9k). http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5 My guess is some more googling could shed light on the wired interface as well. Cheers, Mark -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
Re: SL5.4 and Asus eee S101 netbook
On 5 March 2010 17:21, William Lutter wjlut...@wisc.edu wrote: I've installed SL5.4 on an ASUS eee S101 netbook that my lab has purchased. Reviews say Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 work flawlessly (Ubuntu). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220595 I usually use SL, so I've installed 5.4. lscpi indicates that the ethernet controler is Atheros (AR8121 ...) and wireless is atheros (AR928X). There are no atheros entries in the other card adaptor lists in the network configuration submenus. So, neither the ethernet card nor wireless adaptors are recognized? The README file from downloading atheros driver from madwifi shows latest download is 2/08. README says lspci should show it as unknown and a 0x168x vendor ID. lspci -v indicates both ethernet (8324) and wireless (1a3b:1067) are unknown devices. I'm guessing madwifi is not going to not work. Looks like I need special software. For lab usage, I don't need networking. It would be nice to update software etc. I'd install ubuntu if it gave me networking capability and which is not available via current RHEL5 SL distro. Hi Bill, Have you checked the ELRepo Project? [1] The FAQ [2] may give you some hints. Regards, Alan. [1] http://elrepo.org [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ
Re: SL5.4 and Asus eee S101 netbook
William Lutter wrote: I've installed SL5.4 on an ASUS eee S101 netbook that my lab has purchased. Reviews say Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 work flawlessly (Ubuntu). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220595 I usually use SL, so I've installed 5.4. lscpi indicates that the ethernet controler is Atheros (AR8121 ...) and wireless is atheros (AR928X). There are no atheros entries in the other card adaptor lists in the network configuration submenus. So, neither the ethernet card nor wireless adaptors are recognized? The README file from downloading atheros driver from madwifi shows latest download is 2/08. README says lspci should show it as unknown and a 0x168x vendor ID. lspci -v indicates both ethernet (8324) and wireless (1a3b:1067) are unknown devices. I'm guessing madwifi is not going to not work. Looks like I need special software. For lab usage, I don't need networking. It would be nice to update software etc. I'd install ubuntu if it gave me networking capability and which is not available via current RHEL5 SL distro. ath9k is included in 5.5's kernel. If you're feeling adventurous you can grab the sources for the beta and compile them yourself. Or you can wait a while for SL 5.5's release. http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5.b1/html/Release_Notes/#id3488732 -- Garrett Holmstrom University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Systems Staff
Fwd: Re: SL5.4 and Asus eee S101 netbook
I've installed the suggested kernel kernel-2.6.18-189.el5.jwltest.105.i686.rpm. This may be of help for the wireless (ath9k). http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5 No go. My supervisor prefers the netbook not have internet capability, so not an issue. I will provide this feedback. The wireless adaptor in network configuration now is identified as atheros AR928X. It is unknown still in lspci output. Starting the device via network configuration menus yields a siocsifflags unknown error 132. Or, sudo ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 Ubuntu forums suggest rfkill. I surmise rfkill is an ubuntu hack that kills wifi drivers. Lots of web exchanges on this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/464559 Thanks for the suggestions, Bill Lutter ---BeginMessage--- William Lutter wrote: I've installed SL5.4 on an ASUS eee S101 netbook that my lab has purchased. Reviews say Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 work flawlessly (Ubuntu). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220595 I usually use SL, so I've installed 5.4. lscpi indicates that the ethernet controler is Atheros (AR8121 ...) and wireless is atheros (AR928X). There are no atheros entries in the other card adaptor lists in the network configuration submenus. So, neither the ethernet card nor wireless adaptors are recognized? The README file from downloading atheros driver from madwifi shows latest download is 2/08. README says lspci should show it as unknown and a 0x168x vendor ID. lspci -v indicates both ethernet (8324) and wireless (1a3b:1067) are unknown devices. I'm guessing madwifi is not going to not work. Looks like I need special software. For lab usage, I don't need networking. It would be nice to update software etc. I'd install ubuntu if it gave me networking capability and which is not available via current RHEL5 SL distro. thoughts? Bill Lutter This may be of help for the wireless (ath9k). http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5 My guess is some more googling could shed light on the wired interface as well. Cheers, Mark -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591 ---End Message---
Re: SL5.4 and Asus eee S101 netbook
Garrett Holmstrom wrote: ath9k is included in 5.5's kernel. If you're feeling adventurous you can grab the sources for the beta and compile them yourself. Or you can wait a while for SL 5.5's release. http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5.b1/html/Release_Notes/#id3488732 You don't need to compile them yourself, Red Hat testing kernel binaries are available here: http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5/ Kernel -186.el5 shipped as part of RHEL5.5b1. Alternatively, as Alan Bartlett stated, grab the drivers from ELRepo. Hope that helps.
