Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Charles Elsaesser wrote: > hello Alan and Earl, > > All was you told me had to be considered, which takes some reflexion and > time. > > As I could not connect to the internet in a first time of 5 weeks, with a > new low-price asus-x75vc computer, after reading your advices, I found some > "alx" reference on > http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/elrepo/elrepo/el6/i386/RPMS/kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm > http:///linuxsoft.cern.ch/elrepo/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm > > this driver works for my > Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet > (rev 10) Thanks for posting your note. The ELRepo's DeviceID has now been updated to include the alx driver (that was missing). pci 1969:1090 kmod-alx pci 1969:1091 kmod-alx It indeeds supports your device. Akemi
Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux
hello Alan and Earl, All was you told me had to be considered, which takes some reflexion and time. As I could not connect to the internet in a first time of 5 weeks, with a new low-price asus-x75vc computer, after reading your advices, I found some "alx" reference on http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/elrepo/elrepo/el6/i386/RPMS/kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm http:///linuxsoft.cern.ch/elrepo/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm this driver works for my Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) > lspci -nn | grep -i -e net > -- > > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE > 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01) > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 > Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10) So I understand following: alx driver is not supported in standard releases of scientificLinux-6 but "alx" driver works for some old versions of hardware integrated on asus computer as if they were new. important thing for me is that it works. not to can access internet with a newly buyed computer is a special experience. now perharps, Alan could we brainstorm to understand if there is a logical hole in the the knowledge about asus or artheros hardwares. if you need other data, please tell me. Thanks to you both for the decisive help you brought when I was travelling. Charles De : Alan Bartlett À : "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov" Cc : Charles Elsaesser Envoyé le : Jeudi 4 juillet 2013 23h51 Objet : Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux On 4 July 2013 02:33, Charles Elsaesser wrote: > > lspci -nn | grep -i -e net > -- > > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE > 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01) > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 > Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10) Thank you for that information. I was hoping that what Earl had previously advised would have resolved your problem but, unfortunately, no it will not. If you search the Device IDs page [1] (on the ELRepo Project's web-site) for the pairing 1969:1091 there is no match. Hence no driver is available from that source. The only other option I can see is to check the kernel-lt [2] and kernel-ml [3] packages from the same source. This is what I find -- [quote] [Duo2 ~]$ rpm -qa kernel\* | grep -vE 'dev|fir|head' | sort kernel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-lt-3.0.84-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 [Duo2 ~]$ grep 1969 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 1091 /lib/modules/3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64/modules.alias:alias pci:v1969d1091sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alx [Duo2 ~]$ [/quote] The first command line shows the kernels that I have installed on this system, the second command line shows that your particular Atheros NIC is supported by the alx module which is only present in the latest kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo package. I hope this information will help. Alan. [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt [3] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux
On 4 July 2013 02:33, Charles Elsaesser wrote: > > lspci -nn | grep -i -e net > -- > > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE > 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01) > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 > Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10) Thank you for that information. I was hoping that what Earl had previously advised would have resolved your problem but, unfortunately, no it will not. If you search the Device IDs page [1] (on the ELRepo Project's web-site) for the pairing 1969:1091 there is no match. Hence no driver is available from that source. The only other option I can see is to check the kernel-lt [2] and kernel-ml [3] packages from the same source. This is what I find -- [quote] [Duo2 ~]$ rpm -qa kernel\* | grep -vE 'dev|fir|head' | sort kernel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-lt-3.0.84-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 [Duo2 ~]$ grep 1969 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 1091 /lib/modules/3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64/modules.alias:alias pci:v1969d1091sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alx [Duo2 ~]$ [/quote] The first command line shows the kernels that I have installed on this system, the second command line shows that your particular Atheros NIC is supported by the alx module which is only present in the latest kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo package. I hope this information will help. Alan. [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt [3] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux
Alan, Here is the requested output. lspci -nn | grep -i -e net -- 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10) Thank you for your actions. Charles De : Alan Bartlett À : "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov" Cc : Charles Elsaesser Envoyé le : Mercredi 3 juillet 2013 21h33 Objet : Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux 2013/7/3 Charles Elsaesser : > problem > --- > > artheros-8161 device not recognized by linux : missing driver > > as a consequence computers using artheros-8161 cannot run linux and are > useless when linux is the only way. > > pc is "asus-x75vc" model > > attempt of compiling alx driver as explained at > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx > failed and following outputs are joined. > > Has it a sense to recompile linux kernel 3.3 on a native older system? > > Can it help? > > Thanks for our explanations, if someone can give advices. Charles, Will you please post just the one line, which relates to the Atheros device in your system, that is returned by a lspci -nn | grep -i net command line. Sight of the Vendor:Device ID Pairing for the hardware will allow us to verify exactly which driver is required. [off topic] The latest kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo package does now provide the alx kernel module. [/off topic] Alan.
Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux
2013/7/3 Charles Elsaesser : > problem > --- > > artheros-8161 device not recognized by linux : missing driver > > as a consequence computers using artheros-8161 cannot run linux and are > useless when linux is the only way. > > pc is "asus-x75vc" model > > attempt of compiling alx driver as explained at > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx > failed and following outputs are joined. > > Has it a sense to recompile linux kernel 3.3 on a native older system? > > Can it help? > > Thanks for our explanations, if someone can give advices. Charles, Will you please post just the one line, which relates to the Atheros device in your system, that is returned by a lspci -nn | grep -i net command line. Sight of the Vendor:Device ID Pairing for the hardware will allow us to verify exactly which driver is required. [off topic] The latest kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo package does now provide the alx kernel module. [/off topic] Alan.
Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 05:18:05AM +0100, Charles Elsaesser wrote: > > artheros-8161 device not recognized by linux : missing driver > Historically, SL/CentOS was not the place for freshest drivers and support of latest hardware. (That was before ELREPO, etc) Historically, Knoppix and Ubuntu had all the latest drivers, etc. So before you give up on Linux, please try Knoppix and Ubuntu. (And a fresh new Knoppix was just released!) > > attempt of compiling alx driver as explained at > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx > failed and following outputs are joined. > > Has it a sense to recompile linux kernel 3.3 on a native older system? > SL4 and SL5 had no big problems running on vanilla linux kernels. Combination of SL6 and vanilla linux kernel 3.3 would probably work okey, as long as you know which kernel options to enable... -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
