Atheros Gigabit lan

MystX · 2009-06-04 09:24:11

Hi everyone,
Ive just installed Arch for the first time and cant seem to build the drivers for my mobos built in Atheros ethernet card. I know i have the right drivers, but i get an error when i try to build them. Here's the output in console:

[mystx@BEAST atl1e]$ makepkg PKGBUILD 
==> Making package: atl1e 1.0.0.4-5 x86_64 (Thu Jun  4 21:10:07 NZST 2009)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading LinuxDrivers.zip...
--2009-06-04 21:10:07--  http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5KPL-CM/LinuxDrivers.zip
Resolving dlcdnet.asus.com... 219.88.186.82
Connecting to dlcdnet.asus.com|219.88.186.82|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2701474 (2.6M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `LinuxDrivers.zip.part'

100%[======================================>] 2,701,474    320K/s   in 12s     

2009-06-04 21:10:25 (228 KB/s) - `LinuxDrivers.zip.part' saved [2701474/2701474]

==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    LinuxDrivers.zip ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> bsdtar -x -f LinuxDrivers.zip
bsdtar: Failed to set default locale
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...

UNRAR 3.90 beta 2 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Alexander Roshal


Extracting from l1e-l2e-linux-v1.0.0.4.rar

Creating    src                                                       OK
Extracting  src/at.h                                                  OK 
Extracting  src/atl1e.mod.c                                           OK 
Extracting  src/at_ethtool.c                                          OK 
Extracting  src/at_hw.c                                               OK 
Extracting  src/at_hw.h                                               OK 
Extracting  src/at_main.c                                             OK 
Extracting  src/at_osdep.h                                            OK 
Extracting  src/at_param.c                                            OK 
Extracting  src/kcompat.c                                             OK 
Extracting  src/kcompat.h                                             OK 
Extracting  src/kcompat_ethtool.c                                     OK 
Extracting  src/Makefile                                              OK 
Extracting  atl1e.7                                                   OK 
Extracting  copying                                                   OK 
Extracting  ldistrib.txt                                              OK 
Extracting  readme                                                    OK 
All OK
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-ARCH'
  CC [M]  /home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.o
In file included from /home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_hw.h:29,
                 from /home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at.h:44,
                 from /home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c:27:
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_osdep.h:67:5: warning: "DBG" is not defined
In file included from /home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c:27:
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at.h:46:5: warning: "DBG" is not defined
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c: In function 'at_io_error_detected':
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c:885: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c: In function 'at_io_slot_reset':
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c:908: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c: In function 'at_io_resume':
/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.c:935: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
make[2]: *** [/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src/at_main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/mystx/Desktop/atl1e/src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-ARCH'
make: *** [default] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
    Aborting...

Can someone please help me out with this?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. on a side note, whats the best utils to use to get my wireless to connect on startup? At the moment i have to use iwconfig and wpa_supplicant on every boot to get it working =\

jack.mitchell · 2009-06-04 09:43:27

For connecting to your network:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg

For your ethernet card there seems to be a pkgbuild in the aur that will automatically build your module:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18663

If you don't know how to use the aur checkout:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

and

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt

Good luck!
Jack.

Edit: it seems after further inspection of your error, it mentions something about your default locale not being set, did you uncomment the correct line for your locales (e.g. en_GB for me) in the configuration part of your installation and then set it in rc.conf?

Last edited by jack.mitchell (2009-06-04 09:45:29)

MystX · 2009-06-04 20:22:01

Jack:

That is the AUR pkg that i used, which gave me that error.
And as to my locale, i remember setting it to NZ_something.. But im not sure if it's anywhere in my rc.conf, ill go dig it out now. But i have installed heaps and heaps of other packages with that warning about locale with no problems at all.

jack.mitchell · 2009-06-05 16:05:44

If it's not the locale problem, then my only other guess is that it's a conflict with the new GCC which is way over my head. The other packages you have installed, were they compiled packages or binary blobs?

Jack.

MystX · 2009-06-05 21:58:53

They have all been installed from yaourt or pacman

.:B:. · 2009-06-05 22:24:29

The errors all point to some problem in the driver's source code itself. Shame the PKGBUILD creator did not state an (opt)depends for a kernel, then you might have had a clue what kernel it did build against.

Other than that, there should be a driver in the kernel:

[stijn@hermes ~]$ grep -i atl /var/abs/core/kernel26/config
CONFIG_ATL2=m
CONFIG_ATL1=m
CONFIG_ATL1E=m
CONFIG_ATL1C=m
CONFIG_INPUT_ATLAS_BTNS=m

MystX · 2009-06-07 05:03:49

B: That directory doesn't exist on my system..

.:B:. · 2009-06-07 13:57:34

The directory is irrelevant. Since I don't use the Arch kernel myself I have no config files of it around - so I had to resort to ABS. Check your configuration file in /boot for details. You can run the same grep command on the config file there.

MystX · 2009-06-14 04:02:59

B: i still cant find any config files in /boot. At the moment i can use wireless anyways and ill take your word that there's a driver in the kernel

jacko · 2009-06-14 12:30:04

Atheros support in the kernel has been spectacular since .29. Atheros is paying a developer to develope for the linux kernel. If there are issues, then you should report them to the kernel bug tracker AFAIK.

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#1 2009-06-04 09:24:11

Atheros Gigabit lan

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Re: Atheros Gigabit lan

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