Acer Aspire One D250... no LAN/wifi

steevols · 2009-08-05 03:53:09

Hey guys,

I just bought an AAO D250 (10 inch) the other day and tried installing Arch an hour or two ago. The install itself went flawlessly and I had a bootable installation in about 10 minutes. The problem is that I can't get the ethernet or wireless to work. I tried installing the other kernel module version as detailed here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ace … One_AOD150, but was unable to find [459]AR813X-linux-v1.0.0.9.tar.gz at the site. They have upgraded to 1.0.0.10; I tried installing that but my ethernet/wifi still won't work. Without those I am sort of stuck...

Help?:(

jelly · 2009-08-05 08:07:46

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One
Maybe try the wiki above, your wired connection should work anyway. Did it work when you where installing it ?

 Use module r8169 for eth0 support with kernel version >=2.6.26. 
If you have problems with r8169 (unlikely), try r8101.

Try modprobe module-r8169 and start the network deamon

schuay · 2009-08-05 09:04:22

What do you mean by 'won't work' ? What's the output of 'sudo dhcpcd eth0' (while a network cable is plugged in)?

steevols · 2009-08-05 12:56:10

Never mind guys; I hunted down the proper version of the driver and got it installed. Thanks anyway!

doom_phd · 2009-08-11 22:23:27

steevols where did you find the driver?
I have been looking for a solution to this for quite sometime.
Right now I have been running Ubuntu since it at leasts detects the wireless on my D250.
It would be great if this solved my problems and I could run arch.

Thanks

carrot · 2009-08-14 05:21:44

can someone post their steps to get this ethernet card working.

I have downloaded the AR813X driver and tried compiling, however I would receive an error during the compile process, and would therefore not get the ko module. I then found a link that specified a modification to the IRQ_HANDLED & IRQ_NONE lines of kcompat.h, which has since allowed me to compile the driver and load it. However, once this is complete, when I try to load dhcpcd to connect it times out. If I then run ifconfig it shows a large number of packets being sent, dropped, errors, and overruns. Not sure where else to go from here.

Any help would be much appreciated.

jelly · 2009-08-14 14:53:13

carrot wrote:

can someone post their steps to get this ethernet card working.
I have downloaded the AR813X driver and tried compiling, however I would receive an error during the compile process, and would therefore not get the ko module. I then found a link that specified a modification to the IRQ_HANDLED & IRQ_NONE lines of kcompat.h, which has since allowed me to compile the driver and load it. However, once this is complete, when I try to load dhcpcd to connect it times out. If I then run ifconfig it shows a large number of packets being sent, dropped, errors, and overruns. Not sure where else to go from here.
Any help would be much appreciated.

-Look for the driver on AUR
- Don't post a guide to install here , make a wiki page.

carrot · 2009-08-17 05:23:10

jelly, no driver exists on AUR.

has anyone actually got the ethernet driver to work?

Last edited by carrot (2009-08-27 04:15:12)

steevols · 2009-08-26 13:48:14

Gosh, I've been off the forums for a bit with college starting again...

I used the Linux Family Driver from http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx (AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz specifically) and followed the wiki instructions for building it. I can't find the wiki article I used, but if I remember right I just built the module and installed it like any other. After that and a reboot, my wifi worked fine.

carrot · 2009-08-27 04:14:52

thanks for the reply steevols, but my problem is with the ethernet port. My wireless works 100% without any additional modules.

steevols · 2009-08-27 04:20:46

Oh... no idea. I don't remember having any issues with my ethernet, but I set up most of that stuff around 3 in the morning and don't remember too much of it to start with.

kirothi · 2009-10-04 17:40:10

Hi guys,

Having lots of problems with my wired network card. Cant compile the one from the Acer website because i get a ton of build errors.

Also when i run lspci my wired network card doesnt even shows up....

Anyone else running into these issues?

Base-devel package group is installed, running as root, and the wired works under windows. Let me know if you need more info.

lspci output:

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Build output:

# make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH'
  CC [M]  /home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.o
/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.c: In function 'atl1c_intr':
/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.c:1635: error: expected expression before ';' token
/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.c:1649: error: expected expression before ';' token
/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.c:1673: error: expected expression before ';' token
/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.c:1703: warning: 'return' with a value, in function returning void
/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.c: In function 'atl1c_request_irq':
/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.c:2345: warning: passing argument 2 of 'request_irq' from incompatible pointer type
include/linux/interrupt.h:113: note: expected 'irq_handler_t' but argument is of type 'void (*)(int,  void *)'
make[2]: *** [/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src/atl1c_main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/kirothi/downloads/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH'
make: *** [default] Error 2

Last edited by kirothi (2009-10-04 17:43:59)

carrot · 2009-10-06 02:07:32

kirothi, I still have no solution to this. If you read my previous posts you will see that I got past the compile errors by modifying the kcompact.h source file, however I still could not get the port to function after loading the module. My solution now is to use a spare usb ethernet adapter that I had lying around when I can't use wireless.

kirothi · 2009-10-07 19:05:20

Carrot,

Thanks for your reply, can you please tell me what it is that you've edited and/or point to the article that gave you the instructions?

Thanks Kiro.

kirothi · 2009-10-08 15:07:18

Update!

I got the card working with the new Kernel from the testing repo

$ uname -r
2.6.31-ARCH

send me a PM if you need detailed instructions.

Kirothi!

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