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daniell

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[SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

Solved thanks to this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … ostcount=1

2. The LAN Card
On this page here: http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx you can find the AR813X-linux-v1.0.0.8.tar.gz driver. The README in the file pretty much explains the installation. The MAKE INSTALL failed for me on the installation of the man-file but that does not seem to have mattered. Now the card is deteced.

Here is a mode detailed description:
$ gunzip AR813X-linux-v1.0.0.8.tar.gz
$ tar xvf AR813X-linux-v1.0.0.8.tar.gz
$ cd src/
$ make
$ sudo make install
restart

Edited this threads name etcetera so it may help other timeline-users :)

Last edited by daniell (2009-07-05 15:15:40)

AngryKoala

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

iwconfig wlan0 essid [essid of your router]

has no effect?

daniell

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

don't have iwconfig installed

Only selected base package

Is that the reason why my wireless won't work?

Last edited by daniell (2009-07-02 16:15:53)

perbh

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

do a 'lspci | grep Ether' and you will find your ethernet adapter.
Then modprobe the appropriate driver.

Wired ethernet is inherently more easy to set up than wireless - at least when you are about to install a distro.
After you have finished installing _and_ wired is working allright, then is the time to start playing with wireless (IMHO)

daniell

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

@perbh did it and found out i have a attansic ethernet card

tried both modprobe atl1 and atl2 but nothing happens

no eth0 in ifconfig and still same error when restarting network

Wired ethernet is inherently more easy to set up than wireless - at least when you are about to install a distro.
After you have finished installing _and_ wired is working allright, then is the time to start playing with wireless (IMHO)

Just wan't internet to work so i can setup X etc.

Last edited by daniell (2009-07-02 16:21:50)

perbh

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

The best way of checking if you have found the correct driver is:
modprobe <driver> && dmesg | grep eth0

A little google of "attansic gigabit ethernet +linux" should give you some kind of starting point ...
It just might be that it is not in the kernel yet? I did the above google but didn't look into it - just got a lot of hits.

daniell

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

@perbh most of the hits i've looked into this far is only patchnotes and updates about atl1 being added to linux as a driver

perbh

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

Looking at sourceforge (which supposedly should be preferable) there is no entry after the 2.6.20-kernel (2 years ago)
There seems to be important _which_ kind of L1 you have - have you tried all the possibilties? (atl1, atl1c, atl1e etc)

daniell

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Re: [SOLVED] Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T - no eth0

Did modprobe -l | grep atl

Found 3 net drivers, atl1e, at1, atl2 and have tried all of them. I'm actually considering installing utbuntu and give arch another try later, the acer timeline series is a quite new series of laptops.