[SOLVED] no ethernet inetface on acer aspire one happy N55D

openess · 2011-02-03 15:37:16

Hi.
I recently bought a new acer aspire one happy N55D, netbook, but when trying to install arch on it udev can't load any modules for my network, this is on the live image 2010.05. I don't want to install unless I know that I will have network

I know I should be able to just modprobe the right module, but I don't know which one that is. When I looked around online for a bit I realised that my new
ethernet card might not be so straight forward, but it has been done, I think,
in ubuntu. However I don't know exactly how
to translate all that to arch.

Here is the output of some relevant commands, they match the output in the ubuntu thread.

lspci | grep -i net

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8171 (rev 10)

ifconfig -a

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:225.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:840 (840.0 b) TX bytes:840 (840.0 b)

Wlan is probarbly gonna be a pain as well. But regular Lan is a good enough first step to know installation will be worth it

I'll appreciate any help as I'm utterly stuck right now -_-'

edit: solved

Last edited by openess (2011-02-05 12:54:16)

Gusar · 2011-02-03 16:07:03

That procedure should work in Arch too, except instead of installing build-essentials, you install base-devel. This gives you gcc and company, so you can compile stuff.

Which kernel is the 2010.5 image? Support for that atheros card is in 2.6.37 at least. So starting your installation from a different installation media which has a newer kernel, might be an option. The module is atl1c.

No idea about the wireless. Kernel 2.6.37 has R8187SE and RTL8192E in staging, maybe one of those works? This site might be of help: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
Edit: Quick google shows RTL8192E is the correct driver for that card. So with 2.6.37 you should have wireless.

Last edited by Gusar (2011-02-03 16:10:56)

openess · 2011-02-03 19:51:21

ok.. Thanks for the help

2010.05 is the install media currently available on the downloadpage. The kernel is 2.6.33.4 . So it's nowhere near recent. The ubuntu thread is also old.

Is there a simple way to update the kernel on the live media? (without loosing it on reboot, since I have to reboot to load it)

Or I could just install first and then update the kernel via USB, but I want to be safe. The fix in the ubuntu thread seems like a lot of extra work if It's gonna fix itself with a newer kernel.

ernia · 2011-02-03 20:23:29

i had a similar problem with an acer aspireone 521 and i did a network install with an usb network adapter.
if you have such a device (or maybe a wireless key supported by the kernel 2.6.33) you will end up with an updated system with 2.6.37 kernel without compiling anything and you will have network on reboot

openess · 2011-02-05 12:52:45

I solved the problem by doing a core install and then upgrading the kernel (and deps) via USB. I just performed a pacman -Syu and my new system definetly has an internet connection.

Thanks for all the help

I'm gonna tag this thread [SOLVED] since the problem is solved, and with a newer install media won't even be a problem in the future.

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#1 2011-02-03 15:37:16

[SOLVED] no ethernet inetface on acer aspire one happy N55D

#2 2011-02-03 16:07:03

Re: [SOLVED] no ethernet inetface on acer aspire one happy N55D

#3 2011-02-03 19:51:21

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#4 2011-02-03 20:23:29

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#5 2011-02-05 12:52:45

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