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urist

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Registered: 2009-02-22

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[solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

Arch installs fine. I'm looking at the wiki article and it says to go to Atheros' web site to download the drivers for the ethernet adapter. There's a problem with that. The site isn't up. Every post I've found on Google and here, even some fairly recent ones, has had the people find it at that site. With a few of the posts being on this very forum, I figured someone would have uploaded something to the AUR, but that is not the case.

Without some way of getting on the 'net, Arch turned my netbook into a useless hunk of tech. There's no iwconfig present, so I can't use wireless, either.

I'm not bashing Arch here. I'm just tired of screwing with getting my AAO back up and running after over 24 hours of constant fidgeting with it. I would really not like to install another Ubuntu-based distro on it (again, with nonworking ethernet), but it and Fedora are the only two I've gotten to work as of yet.

And I forgot my question. Does anyone have a solution? Can someone upload the driver?

And I'm stupid. I should have put this in the laptop section.

Last edited by urist (2009-12-04 04:45:56)

reed9

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Registered: 2008-06-12

Posts: 77

Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

Well, I was looking on the Atheros site to see if I could locate the drivers, but no luck.

I did find this message

Hacked by linuXploit_crew

http://customerproducts.atheros.com/

You can get an older version of the driver here:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/wal2/atheros_attansic.html

It might work.

reed9

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Registered: 2008-06-12

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Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

Wait, why is there no iwconfig?  It's part of the wireless_tools package.

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

Hmm, quite sure iwconfig came with the iso when I last tried it. The package is with wireless_tools, maybe it just got deselected and you can grab it from the cd.

miau

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 202

Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

Why don't you use the atl1e module as suggested. The wiki says that you have to download the driver and compile it yourself if you have the D250.

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

it also says "The chip in the AAO D250 has device id 0x1062, and the default atl1e  driver only supports the 0x1026 device."
What?

urist

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Registered: 2009-02-22

Posts: 248

Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

I didn't see the giant header that said "Kernel Drivers for Aspire One D250" on that page. Still, that doesn't explain why it's talking about the 250 on a page for the 150.

I forgot to mention that I tried the atl1e driver that was preinstalled, but it didn't work. Nothing showed up in ifconfig, no eth0, no wlan0, just lo.

Thanks for all of the replies. I've got Arch installed and all is well (except I still have no eth0). One of the above posters was right. I didn't check wireless_tools when installing the first time. Updating now.

Last edited by urist (2009-12-03 23:23:49)

miau

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

Maybe you have to use another ethernet driver...what is the output of lspci?

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

Chances are this is simply fixed with a pacman -Syu, there were some hiccups with kernel 2.6.30 and atheros cards.

urist

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Registered: 2009-02-22

Posts: 248

Re: [solved] Installing on Acer Aspire One D150

I already did a -Syu before it was mentioned. It didn't help.

The only networking entry in lspci is

01:0.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

It's no big deal. I have no real need for a wired connection.