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Hi everyone.
I am pretty new to Linux, but I have played with Arch, amongst other distros, in VirtualBox before. Today I got a nice shiny new eee PC 1005HA. I always intended to install Linux on it, and while I know that Arch isn't usually considered the best bet for someone without a great deal of Linux experience, I like The Arch Way™ etc etc.
Now, I had done a basic check to see if anyone else was using the 1005HA on these forums, and they had and said that everything was working. I guess I was tired, because if I had done a search for "1005HA" I would see a couple of threads with people having issues with the network interfaces.
As far as I can tell, for most people the wireless works fine with very little effort needed on the user's part. However, for me neither wireless nor ethernet works. ifconfig -a lists only lo, which isn't very helpful. lspci | grep -i net listed two things, but in the end I had to use google to look up what specific model was in my computer (Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285)
I have reinstalled a couple of times, making sure to include things like wireless-tools, and I am using the Core USB image. I have tried using the ath5k and ath9k drivers (at least I think I have—maybe I am doing it hopelessly wrong) and neither gave any results.
I would like to get Arch working if possible, although if not I will try Ubuntu and then finally Windows.
Thanks for any help you wonderful people can give.
Last edited by Ases (2009-09-17 15:36:17)
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How did you go about trying the ath9k driver. That should be the one you want.
According to the wiki you should install the compat-wireless package, available in the AUR.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16829
Post the output of lsmod.
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Well, based on the wiki I just used modprobe, but, like I say, I have no idea if that is how it works or not. I have never had an issue like this before.
The issue with using the AUR, and indeed posting the output of lsmod, is that I have absolutely no network connectivity on the netbook, nor do I have any other Linux installation of any kind at this time. I essentially only have what is available on the Core img on the USB stick.
What would be the best way to get the output of lsmod from the netbook to these forums?
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You can pipe the output to a text file, and put it on a USB drive to transfer to another computer.
lsmod > lsmod.txtI found this guide for Ubuntu.
http://www.jfwhome.com/2009/08/06/perfe … nd-1008ha/
The section on compiling the ethernet driver should work fine for Arch as well. Make sure you install the development tools on the core disk.
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There's actually a pkgbuild in the AUR for the wired kernel module.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ather … d-1005-ha/
You can download the source and pkgbuild to a thumbdrive, and build them using makepkg on your machine.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg
This is preferably since it will be tracked by the package manager as well.
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