Re: Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t
On 7 September 2012 02:08, Stowell Davison swdavi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: On 09/06/2012 07:28 AM, Stowell Davison uttered this comment: I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is device is an Atheros AR8161L. Atheros stuff is normally wi-fi, not wired. I'm not saying it isn't the hardwire port but it wouldn't be common. There is also a wifi port; and that seems to be working -- If I click the connection icon I see a list of the various available wifi hotspots in the neighborhood. But I think the AR8161L is a wired device (and there is _some_ wired device there -- I mean, there's an RJ-45 jack through which Windows was getting to the internet). The entry on the motherboard spec sheet says: Network LAN: 1000-Base-T Interface: Integrated into motherboard Technology: Atheros AR8161L Data transfer speeds: up to 10/100/1000 Mb/s Transmission standards: 1000-Base-T Ethernet According to http://www.jfdesignnet.com/?p=2133 it will show up in lspci as something like this: 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1091 (rev 10) And really is an ethernet controller. See my other mail to the list for further suggestions on getting it working. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t
Solved! Many thanks. Details below... On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2012 15:28, Stowell Davison swdavi...@gmail.com wrote: I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is device is an Atheros AR8161L. Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and /var/log/messages contain no mention of Atheros AR8161L or any useful substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network connections from the machine using MS Windows. Thanks for any suggestions. Stowe Davison http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison This appears to need the alx driver: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx Solved! Many thanks, Ian. The alx driver from the URL you provided above did the job. There are installation instructions there on the web site. There were a couple of glitches in the make because I lacked some necessary packages for the build, but the error messages were clear. The HP h8-1320t is now communicating on its ethernet port. Thanks again to all who responded. Stowe Davison -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t
On 6 September 2012 15:28, Stowell Davison swdavi...@gmail.com wrote: I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is device is an Atheros AR8161L. Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and /var/log/messages contain no mention of Atheros AR8161L or any useful substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network connections from the machine using MS Windows. Thanks for any suggestions. Stowe Davison http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison This appears to need the alx driver: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx Which isn't on my fedora 17 box. You may have some luck trying the compat-wireless packages: http://people.redhat.com/sgruszka/compat_wireless.html (yes, I know ethernet, not wireless, still, that seems to be where it is) See also http://www.jfdesignnet.com/?p=2133 It should show up in lspci. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t
On 09/06/2012 07:28 AM, Stowell Davison uttered this comment: I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is device is an Atheros AR8161L. Atheros stuff is normally wi-fi, not wired. I'm not saying it isn't the hardwire port but it wouldn't be common. Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and /var/log/messages contain no mention of Atheros AR8161L or any useful substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. In F17, unless you did an upgrade from a previous release and told udev to keep the old name, the port will be named something based on the bus and device IDs, like p4p1 or em1 or something. Try ifconfig -a as the root user to see if the device is actually showing up. -- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigitalri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2ICQ: 22643734Yahoo: origrps2 - -- - Doctor! My brain hurts! It will have to come out! - -- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t
Stowell Davison wrote: I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is device is an Atheros AR8161L. Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and /var/log/messages contain no mention of Atheros AR8161L or any useful substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. By default FC17 makes up odd names for interfaces, look at ifconfig -a for it. There is a config option to fix it, but no config option to use a MAC to name conversion file so the name on the card is fixed. I'm looking at that, but in my spare time. If have have just one NIC, the config will let always be eth0. I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network connections from the machine using MS Windows. Thanks for any suggestions. Stowe Davison http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: On 09/06/2012 07:28 AM, Stowell Davison uttered this comment: I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is device is an Atheros AR8161L. Atheros stuff is normally wi-fi, not wired. I'm not saying it isn't the hardwire port but it wouldn't be common. There is also a wifi port; and that seems to be working -- If I click the connection icon I see a list of the various available wifi hotspots in the neighborhood. But I think the AR8161L is a wired device (and there is _some_ wired device there -- I mean, there's an RJ-45 jack through which Windows was getting to the internet). The entry on the motherboard spec sheet says: Network LAN: 1000-Base-T Interface: Integrated into motherboard Technology: Atheros AR8161L Data transfer speeds: up to 10/100/1000 Mb/s Transmission standards: 1000-Base-T Ethernet Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and /var/log/messages contain no mention of Atheros AR8161L or any useful substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-**scripts. In F17, unless you did an upgrade from a previous release and told udev to keep the old name, the port will be named something based on the bus and device IDs, like p4p1 or em1 or something. Try ifconfig -a as the root user to see if the device is actually showing up. ifconfig -a shows two devices: lo and wlan0. Stowe Davison -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
