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fizk-jnk

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

Hi folks I am new around here, but wanted to try arch for a while now.

So here is my problem and description :

I installed Arch (everything in order there and the guide is great! ), but when I come to the part of connecting to the internet I seem to be left without an option for internet conection. Which is strange because I have Ubuntu installed on the machine and wireless works (propriatary drivers) and ethernet kind of works (atheros driver).

Now from Ubuntu I know that for my wifi I need  the wl kernel module (Broadcom wireless card) and that I need the atl1c module for the Ethernet.

So here is some basic info about the machine:
installed image 2010.05 x64 with kernel:

2.6.33-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 13 11:32:37 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 450 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

ifconfig -a output :

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Even if I load the atl1c module the output is the same, I tried loading the atl1e instead. I also tried blacklisting atl1c and atl1e and adding them with modprobe command.

here are the two adapters (wireless and lan) :

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4357 (rev 01)

EDIT:
Well...
After a quite extensive research I see that the atl1c and atl1e are quite buggy... so I guess in my case they won't work.

But I am not giving up yet...
all I need is internet conection (wireles or wired), so I did some research on the Broadcom 4357.
It turnes out that I can find it in the AUR repository. And there is also a tar from broadcom.
I also found this guide which describes how to install the driver.

That however presents new problems...

make command output for the broadcom driver :

make: *** /lib/modules/"release"/build: No such file or directory. Stop.

while "makepgk" tells me that makepgk is not installed.

I also searched in the packages section for build-essential, makepgk... but found nothing relevant. Maybe I did something wrong ?

Any Ideas on how to get it all working and compile the driver? (preferably with the files from AUR)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Last edited by fizk-jnk (2011-01-10 15:12:08)

whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

You just have to upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.34 and you will have wireless/ethernet working.

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fizk-jnk

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

Ok. I am kind of new to Arch though... which kernel package should I download and install and how ?

faxe

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Registered: 2010-09-01

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

i have also the 3820tg and everything works well.

if you have installed the 32 bit system

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/kernel26/

for the 64 bit version

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/kernel26/

faxe

fizk-jnk

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

Thanks that worked !

anti-destin

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Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 234

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

You just have to upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.34 and you will have wireless/ethernet working.

i, too, have the broadcom 4357:

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4357 (rev 01)

and kernel 2.6.35.4-1. but wireless isn't working.

fizk-jnk

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

This wireless card is not supported by the b43 driver.

I have posted the link to the AUR in the first post, but here it is again anyways:
this link

Install it and problem solved
cheers

Last edited by fizk-jnk (2010-09-11 07:57:12)

anti-destin

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Registered: 2009-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

thanks. i found this one: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514

that's too bad. i was hoping i wouldn't have to use it, but maybe i have no choice.

but now that broadcom has released the driver as open source (see this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ker … ral/55418), will broadcom-wl become obsolete?

Last edited by anti-destin (2010-09-11 14:02:26)

fizk-jnk

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

Well... as far as I know the one in the AUR is the broadcom one... (I think. Someone correct me if I am wrong)
It is just pre compiled version.

anti-destin

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Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 234

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ethernet and wireless working on timelineX 3820TG

thanks fizk-jnk. i got everything working. but it's a bit of a hassle to compile the driver after every kernel upgrade. oh well.