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cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3506 Location: Sydney Australia

Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165

Lan driver needed.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=706567#706567

Chris.

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3506 Location: Sydney Australia

urls played up...try again.

Guru help needed

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Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

http://www.calculate-linux.org/issues/548

" Can you integrate into Calculate's kernel the driver for ethernet cards "AR8161/8165 ...Atheros PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller"?

The driver can be found here:

http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc.tar.bz2

If i download and make + make install this, it works, but i would like the driver is included in the kernel.

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http://askubuntu.com/questions/165192/how-do-i-install-drivers-for-the-atheros-ar8161-ethernet-controller

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2067014

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12206393

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Chris.

kooliepup · Posted: Tue 04 Jun 2013, 01:51 Post subject:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=467845#467845
(you have been down that road before, I see) Smile

Or U could use ThreeHeadedDog 5.2.8, or Slacko.

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3506 Location: Sydney Australia

Thanks mate but different series...

Atheros AR8161/8165 ....

And I looked at all the rest of the pages >>>to page 11.

Chris.

kooliepup · Posted: Fri 21 Jun 2013, 02:39 Post subject:

If it is any help, Sabayon 13.04 handles it fine.
I just tested it.

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3506 Location: Sydney Australia

" Sabayon 13.04 "

Thanks kooliepup.

A slow month for this issue.

Chris

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3506 Location: Sydney Australia

More info???

Where are our network gurus??

"

Qualcomm Atheros Publishes New Network Driver

" The Qualcomm Atheros ALX driver supports the new AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet and AR8162 Fast Ethernet wired network adapters.

While this is a Linux kernel network driver, QCA has put this code out under a permissive license so that developers can port this driver to
new operating systems "

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https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/8/635

" This driver support two new ethernet chipsets:
1969:1091 - AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet
1969:1090 - AR8162 Fast Ethernet

Qualcomm Atheros(QCA) is commiting to fix all bugs found on this driver.
This driver is also permissively licensed thereby enabling developers of
other OSes to cherry pick this driver to port to their OS.

Test including build/install/uninstall/dhcp/ping/iperf/wol/reboot/etc.
is passed on the supported chipsets.

This driver and patch also have addressed all sparse and checkpatch
warnings. "

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Chris

kooliepup · Posted: Sat 22 Jun 2013, 04:14 Post subject:

More info???

Me?

I can't tell u any more. It works great.

Also the crap Ralink drivers rt5370 and rt5390 work well.

Lovin' Sabayon 13.04.

May even do a UEFI install of it when I get a slow day.

kooliepup · Posted: Mon 01 Jul 2013, 21:07 Post subject:

So, I have these unexplained things that I do periodically, like trying the latest Ubuntu every couple of releases, to see if it has improved any.
Like the eternal optimist that I used to be with Windose, and always disappointed.

I am here to report that the various interfaces I mentioned previously, all work in Ubuntu 13.04.

That's the GOOD news.

As for the rest..
I am glad I have Sabayon.

kooliepup · Posted: Tue 02 Jul 2013, 21:29 Post subject:

Another way to get all these interfaces going.

System Rescue CD.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=711322&search_id=1001152130#711322

kooliepup · Posted: Mon 08 Jul 2013, 01:53 Post subject:

@Chris,

ar8161 support has been in the kernel since 3.8.

Micko has just released his latest Slacko with 3.10 kernel.

Maybe you could ask him to enable it the next time he recompiles the kernel.

ggarland · Joined: 15 Dec 2013 Posts: 2

Greetings,

I'm trying to find the module or pet package for slack 5.6 kernel 3.10.5? I tried the pet package alx-2.0.0.6-w5.pet but it didn't work. It was compile for kernel 2.6.32.59.

lspci output:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller Atheros Communication Device 1090 (rev 10)

Can you please advise me how to find the package or module on-line so I can transfer it to my system?

Base on the post below about enabling support since kernel 3.8, would Micko or someone please enable it. It would be much appreciated. I plan to be a slacko user for a long time.

I appreciate all the work that goes into it and the people who dedicate their time to doing it.

Thanks

Please disregard.

I downloaded the latest slacko beta 5.7.

Problem resolved.

Thanks