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pittaxx

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Registered: 2010-10-16

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[SOLVED] Aspire one D255 - no eth0

My problem is - the AOD255 uses some creepy Ethernet card from Atheros. 

I was playing around with it, installed fresh win7 (had to download ethernet drivers) and ubuntu worked out of the box. Now I got tired of messing around and decided to install the good ol'  Arch (x64) and be done with it.

However after the install, eth0 (or any eth for that matter) is simply not there. Can't really test wi-fi until i'm back from holidays, but at least wlan0 shows up in ifconfig -a...

From my experience nowadays ethernet usually just works (according to aspire-one wiki it should since 2.6.31 kernel and 2.6.33 is packed in the install media) so I am completely at a loss here.

Edit: Ok, i've messed around a bit, tried compiling some drivers from Atheros website (all of them only supports kernel <=2.4 unfortunately), and found a sollution based on: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … ostcount=6 (different netbook, but same network card).

The steps i took to fix it:
1. Download "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" from http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 to your machine
2. Install kernel-headers and sudo.  (in my case it was a fresh install so i just selected them as additional packages)
3. Run the following:

tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

4. Reboot

Last edited by pittaxx (2011-01-03 13:10:13)