Can't get Ethernet or Wireless devices working on Eee pc 1005 HA-P

Franz Kafka · 2009-09-22 04:46:36

I got an Eee pc 1005 HA a while ago and just did a fresh install with the 2009.08 core usb img this weekend, but neither wireless nor ethernet devices are working. I've searched extensively and found some other topics with the same problems, but nothing is working. This is becoming very annoying.

I've tried to fix the ethernet with some help from these topics: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77414 & http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80388

I downloaded the atheros-wired-1005-ha.tar.gz package from the AUR to a flash drive and tried to install it that way, but when I use makepkg it always aborts half way through saying that an error occurred. I'm at my wit's end here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have wireless-tools and netcfg from when I installed Arch as well, if that makes any difference.

hdhiman · 2009-09-22 07:06:48

Checklist:
1) Make sure you've got the proper drivers installed.
2) Check the rc.conf to see if the wireless and ethernet device (wlan0 or whatever) is listed in modules.

Also, search the archwiki for network, wireless and ethernet.

acmps · 2009-09-22 12:21:33

Could you please post your lspci?

Franz Kafka · 2009-09-23 00:22:53

@hdhiman:

1) I'm fairly positive that I don't have the needed drivers and I've been having trouble installing a driver that works.

2) I just tried adding wlan0 and eth0 to my modules and rebooted, but that hasn't done the trick.

My diagnosis has been that I just need to download the drivers and copy them off a thumbdrive and install them. I've tried this with the aforementioned Atheros driver from the AUR, but makepkg never finishes. I haven't tried this with a wireless driver yet. I followed the link to the crunchbang forums which says to get kernel 2.6.29 along with madwifi & madwifi-utils. Has there been some kind of regression with 2.6.30?

@ acmps

I assume the part of the lspci you're asking for are the last two entries on network controllers? When I type in lspci it gives me this:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Techneology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)

02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

EDIT: I noticed one difference between what I've been trying to do and this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77414 is that he downloaded kernel headers and firmware also. Google has just informed me that kernel headers are needed for building packages. Is this true? So could my issue building the ethernet package be due to the lack of kernel headers? I forgot to mention in my previous post that I'm totally nub at linux

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Pi · 2009-09-23 03:21:54

I'm sorry I wish I could help as I've heard that sometimes these things can be a real pest. The only advice I could offer would be to go through the kernel and remove anything Apple related. Don't want your Eee to get an infection

Franz Kafka · 2009-09-23 03:39:55

Pi wrote:

I'm sorry I wish I could help as I've heard that sometimes these things can be a real pest. The only advice I could offer would be to go through the kernel and remove anything Apple related. Don't want your Eee to get an infection

Apple related? Infection? How will this help?

bristi · 2009-09-23 09:42:16

I just received a 1005 myself and can't wait to get to grips with it later today

Maybe this can help you: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA

Specifically it mentions that 2.6.30 transitioned from mad-wifi to the free ath* drivers and that you need 2.6.31-5 or later kernel (or patches) for the atl1c ethernet.

Good luck and please post if you find a solution

Pi · 2009-09-24 00:29:30

My apologies. I was making reference to your screen name Franz Kafka. I thought it was in reference to the writer of the same name. He wrote a book called The Metamorphosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis. It was supposed to be a inside joke/play on words that I caught the screen name, but it appears to have failed miserably. So if you'll excuse me I'll be running for the door now, and as I'm trying to not let it hit me on the way out good luck on getting your problem fixed. Hope everything works out.

Franz Kafka · 2009-09-24 02:53:01

Pi wrote:

My apologies. I was making reference to your screen name Franz Kafka. I thought it was in reference to the writer of the same name. He wrote a book called The Metamorphosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis. It was supposed to be a inside joke/play on words that I caught the screen name, but it appears to have failed miserably. So if you'll excuse me I'll be running for the door now, and as I'm trying to not let it hit me on the way out good luck on getting your problem fixed. Hope everything works out.

Ok lol I totally missed that. No harm done man. I must have been tired and frustrated with my ethernet not working when I posted that. If there's any doubt yes my screen name is the Franz Kafka who wrote The Metamorphosis (I don't think I know of any others!).

So, back to the problem at hand... I'm trying to build the atheros-wired-1005-ha.tar.gz (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ather … d-1005-ha/) package after copying it from my thumb drive to my netbook. When I do 'makepkg' however, it gives a string of errors before saying 'Error: Build Failed Aborting...' Does anybody know why this is happening? Do I need to have the files in a specific directory for them to compile correctly or something? Right now I've just got them in an arbitrary folder /home/usrname/atheros.

EDIT: I'm back after fiddling with this thing a bit more. Most of the errors I get when I try to use makepkg say something like, "Warning: return with a value, in function returning void." I think I'm going to shift my focus to making the wireless work, hopefully that will be easier.

...alright, back with an update! I got wireless working! The problem was my router has WPA encryption, which requires netcfg and wireless-tools (which I had). I think this has been responsible for tripping up a lot of people, so basically what you need to do to get wireless working is make sure you install netcfg and wireless tools from the core image, and follow this article to configure your network: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles. Once you've done that give google a ping and see if it works!

I feel maybe the beginner's guide should be amended to explicitly link to the network profiles wiki page, because I (being a nub) just assumed that if I had netcfg and wireless-tools installed I could just automatically connect with iwconfig like normal. Ethernet still needs some work, but things should roll more smoothly now that I at least have a connection.

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rathel · 2009-10-16 01:20:43

My wireless works/connects, but my problem is that it tends to drop the connection randomly.

vtron · 2009-10-27 13:17:31

rathel wrote:

My wireless works/connects, but my problem is that it tends to drop the connection randomly.

I just installed Arch on my 1005 and I'm having the same issues. I'm trying to download gnome and after a few minutes, the wireless just drops.

# iwlist wlan0 scan | less

says there are no networks around, when the 2 other notebooks around me are saying otherwise. Have you or anyone else solved this problem?? Thanks.

rathel · 2009-10-28 00:24:39

vtron wrote:

I just installed Arch on my 1005 and I'm having the same issues. I'm trying to download gnome and after a few minutes, the wireless just drops.
# iwlist wlan0 scan | less
says there are no networks around, when the 2 other notebooks around me are saying otherwise. Have you or anyone else solved this problem?? Thanks.

No I have not fixed the problem, it's good to see I'm not the only one having this issue though. I've noticed with the latest kernel update my ethernet is working without issues so that's something. I have also tried numerous other linux distros on it and they all get disconnected on the wireless. I haven't used XP on here long enough to see if it happens there as well and I can't seem to reinstall XP.. lol

rathel · 2009-11-19 16:17:54

rathel wrote:

vtron wrote:
I just installed Arch on my 1005 and I'm having the same issues. I'm trying to download gnome and after a few minutes, the wireless just drops.
# iwlist wlan0 scan | less
says there are no networks around, when the 2 other notebooks around me are saying otherwise. Have you or anyone else solved this problem?? Thanks.
No I have not fixed the problem, it's good to see I'm not the only one having this issue though. I've noticed with the latest kernel update my ethernet is working without issues so that's something. I have also tried numerous other linux distros on it and they all get disconnected on the wireless. I haven't used XP on here long enough to see if it happens there as well and I can't seem to reinstall XP.. lol

I have found my restoration DVD so I reinstalled XP and so far it seems to be working, so I guess it's not hadware? But I am getting random blue screens though(not enough is happening to say it's actually a driver problem). I really don't like Windows on here, I find Openbox to be much more pleasing in a netbook enviroment. lol So, I dunno I guess I'll wait for some more kernel updates?

geo · 2009-11-19 16:41:47

rathel wrote:

rathel wrote:
vtron wrote:
I just installed Arch on my 1005 and I'm having the same issues. I'm trying to download gnome and after a few minutes, the wireless just drops.
# iwlist wlan0 scan | less
says there are no networks around, when the 2 other notebooks around me are saying otherwise. Have you or anyone else solved this problem?? Thanks.
No I have not fixed the problem, it's good to see I'm not the only one having this issue though.
--snip--

I have also had the same issue where my wireless connection drops intermittently. I have had some success by disabling power management for the interface.

# iwconfig wlan0 power off

#  iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"xxxxxxxxx"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx [x]
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=26/70  Signal level=-84 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

I'm not calling this is a 100% solution for me yet, but it certainly has reduced the number of dropouts, and my connection quality is more consistent around ~35%

#  lsmod | grep -i ath9k
ath9k                 239188  0
mac80211              155788  1 ath9k
led_class               4000  1 ath9k
ath                     7708  1 ath9k
cfg80211               90364  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
#  uname -a
Linux racoon 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:48:17 CET 2009 i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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tvale · 2009-11-19 17:00:35

I've got an Asus UL30A, but it comes with that same hardware. I got it all working except for WPA2-Personal wireless networks.

Kernel is latest kernel26 package, 2.6.31.6 at the time of writing. This alone got me ethernet working with atl1c module.
Regarding wireless, I've got the latest stable compat-wireless ath9k module installed, 2.6.32-rc7 at the time of writing. As I said, I can connect to my university's WPA2-Enterprise wireless network, and home's WPA-Personal. Can't connect if I set my home's to WPA2-Personal though, still trying to figure that out.

Hope it helps.

rathel · 2009-11-22 02:53:33

geo wrote:

I'm not calling this is a 100% solution for me yet, but it certainly has reduced the number of dropouts, and my connection quality is more consistent around ~35%

Thanks for the power management tip however this had no effect for me.

tvale wrote:

I've got an Asus UL30A, but it comes with that same hardware. I got it all working except for WPA2-Personal wireless networks.
Kernel is latest kernel26 package, 2.6.31.6 at the time of writing. This alone got me ethernet working with atl1c module.
Regarding wireless, I've got the latest stable compat-wireless ath9k module installed, 2.6.32-rc7 at the time of writing. As I said, I can connect to my university's WPA2-Enterprise wireless network, and home's WPA-Personal. Can't connect if I set my home's to WPA2-Personal though, still trying to figure that out.
Hope it helps.

The networks you CAN connect to, is the connection stable no random disconnects?

tvale · 2009-11-22 20:14:37

Well, connection is worse than on my previous laptop with had an ipw2200.
But no, I do not get random disconnects.

jocheem67 · 2009-11-24 23:10:00

First post here:)

Well, what I did was getting into my router and temporarily disabled wpa2, as I don't like messing with wpa_supplicant. I could then connect through

ifconfig wlan0 up

dhcdpcd wlan0

as covered in the wiki...

This gave me a crappy wlireless. However I could get all the updates, and after that my wired worked automagically

I've got a 1005HA-H.

rathel · 2009-11-25 01:49:12

tvale wrote:

Well, connection is worse than on my previous laptop with had an ipw2200.
But no, I do not get random disconnects.

Ah, okay just wondering I get random disconnects 5 seconds to 2 hours. Its kind of annoying I can download Openoffice on Windows without any problems and on Linux I can't down that full length without several disconnects.

hokasch · 2009-11-25 08:35:08

Try kernel26-rc (2.6.32-rc8) from aur, ath9k is screwed up in 2.6.31. RC works fine for me, still experience some occasional hiccups but nothing like with the current stable release.

jocheem67 · 2009-11-25 08:40:52

Might it be a setting within your router where windows handles it better than linux does?? I' m not a network-guru, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the driver..( it probably is ).
I'm wondering what chip your netbook is using? I do have a constant connection with my 1005ha-h but it's usually about 40 - 50% percent strength. ( 3 meters from the router btw ). I'm pretty sure though that with my chip , it is a driver-thingie.

hokasch · 2009-11-25 14:12:11

If lspci tells you this: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter
it is a driver-thingie for sure.
Also see this thread plus the links in it.

lustikus · 2009-11-25 14:38:37

kernel 2.6.32 will bring huge improvements to the ath9k driver, so you probably just wait some weeks

rathel · 2009-11-26 02:48:01

hokasch wrote:

Try kernel26-rc (2.6.32-rc8) from aur, ath9k is screwed up in 2.6.31. RC works fine for me, still experience some occasional hiccups but nothing like with the current stable release.

Thanks for the tip, I am trying kernel26-rc now, It seems to be working alot better, not sure if it's 100% yet but I haven't had any disconnects yet since I switched.

tvale · 2009-11-26 02:54:30

How does that differ from using latest stable compat-wireless ath9k module (2.6.32-rc7 at this time)?

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