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Kabi

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Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

I am trying to get Archlinux running on an Acer Aspire One.
In the wiki pages http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One it says that it is recommended to use kernel >=2.6.26 to get lan working. So my question is how do I get that kernel installed. The arch install image uses 2.6.25.6-1 so that means I have no network working. It also says in the wiki how to get the kernel26-one installed, but not where to get it...
I hope someone can help me find a solution so I can get wired and wireless networking. (And so I can get anything installed!)

EDIT: Sry.... Found the kernel26-one. Maybe I should just try that...

EDIT: I found the package in aur but can't find which file I can use to install.... Any help appreciated!

Last edited by Kabi (2008-12-08 15:30:33)

Kabi

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

In the wiki it says:

pacman -U /mnt/<kernel filename>

But I don't know where to get this kernel file.. What is it I need to download...

Last edited by Kabi (2008-12-04 22:52:08)

LTSmash

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

In the wiki it says:

pacman -U /mnt/<kernel filename>

But I don't know where to get this kernel file.. What is it I need to download...

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19580

Do you really know how to use AUR?

EDIT:
I found a precompiled package for kernel26-one, but I dunno if it's safe, use under your own risk:
http://carlocci.ngi.it/arch/kernel26-on … pkg.tar.gz

There's also a pkgbuild right there:
http://carlocci.ngi.it/arch/kernel26-one/

Last edited by LTSmash (2008-12-04 23:57:23)

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Kabi

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

No I have not used aur before, but I am just trying to follow the wiki, which gives directions how to install the kernel but not where to get it...

I will look at the links you have posted

Inkaine

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

If you had read the wiki correctly, in the beginning it tells about the Acer Aspire One thread on the forum found here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51796

There gothicknight also provides packages of his latest kernels precompiled. Those by LTSmash are really old and I don't even know the author. Maybe read a bit on the thread. Highly recommened, even if already 24 pages long.

Kabi

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

Sorry... I didn't read the full 24 pages in that thread.
Maybe I should, but I just thought maybe someone could help me find the information that seemed to be so obvious that it is not mentioned in the wiki.

As a solution: is there any install-images of archlinux that I could find somewhere that uses a kernel as new as 2.6.26 or maybe even 2.6.27?

Then I wouldn't have to think about this problem of not having ethernet or wireless working.
I just want to use arch because in my previous experience on other hardware it has been the easiest way of getting a light system the way I want.

Last edited by Kabi (2008-12-07 14:18:06)

Inkaine

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

Well, at least reading like the last few pages is always a clever idea to see recent problems. There you could have found this post by gothicknight with a link to his kernel for download (which is not recommended though): http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 95#p453795

For a more recent usb image check this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60385 It's just been posted yesterday, but based on another image that has been in the same subforum for weeks. I had used that to successfully install Arch on my AA1. If you want to install the kernel26-one right into the installation you can "pacman -U -r /tmp/install kernel26-one-2.6.27.7-1.pkg.tar.gz" from the installation environment and have it ready for boot upon first run after installation.

Kabi

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

For a more recent usb image check this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60385

Thanks for the tip.
I am downloading that now and hopefully I will have ethernet working. I never had any special wish to use the kernel26-one. I just wanted to have the internet connection working so that I could install the programs I needed.

So thanks again...

Kabi

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

So now I have installed from the newer install-image, but I am still not able to get ethernet working..

I am wondering if the problem is with the driver loaded: r8169.
The hardware is: Realtek, rtl8101e/rtl8102e

Any other ideas to troubleshoot this problem is most welcome, since I have no clue to the cause of this problem

EDIT: So I am changing the title.

Last edited by Kabi (2008-12-08 15:44:53)

Kabi

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

I just installed arch on another computer which has had arch on it several times before with no problems. But also there I get no working ethernet. The hardware there is Realtek, RTL-8139.

I have tried looking through the arch beginners guide which I have used before to see if there has been som change in getting ethernet working, since I have not used arch for maybe 4-6 months.

But I can see no changes

I really don't know what I am doing wrong.
dmesg gives no errors on this.
The only thing I just discovered just now is that when the cable is plugged in the computers that have arch on them it connects to 192.168.0.2
And when I connect from my ubuntu machine it is 192.168.0.1 which is the address of my router.

As you can probably figure out by now I don't know so much on this subject. But I have never needed to know about any of this before since it just worked out of the box even on arch...

Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by Kabi (2008-12-08 20:45:01)

bnolsen

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Re: Acer aspire one - No working ethernet - help!!

I installed the standard image (2008.06) and was upset no network interfaces worked.
I then installed just the package kernel26-one-2.6.27.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz linked on (I believe) page 24 of the long assed thread using a usb thumb drive and then both interfaces started to work properly after fixing the boot menu and rebooting.

Last edited by bnolsen (2008-12-10 05:55:09)