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There are a couple of unknown devices. The lan might be one of them.
Now I see the ath9k driver, some bell starts to ring.
I think that one gave problems in 4.3.1.
I looked a bit with the puppysearch in my sig, but couldn't find something concrete.
I would, if I were you, PM rerwin and ask advice.
I think there is a bad story about ath9k.

Guys, don't get caught up with descriptions. What's important is the device ID. This determines the correct driver.

kent41 wrote:01:00.0 Class 0200: 1969:2060 (rev c1)

OK, there's your ethernet device - device ID 1969:2060 is the Atheros AR8152. This is quite a new device, and the Linux atl1c/atl1e drivers have only just added support for it in the most recent 2.6.36 kernel.
I have just located updated source code, and can probably compile it for you shortly.

kent41 wrote:02:00.0 Class 0280: 168c:002b (rev 01)

Béèm wrote:Now I see the ath9k driver, some bell starts to ring.

Yes, device ID 168c:002b is an Atheros miniPCI wifi device, supported by the ath9k Linux driver.

Béèm wrote:I think that one gave problems in 4.3.1.

No, ath5k was the problematic wifi driver, as I reported here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4659#44465

Béèm wrote:I would, if I were you, PM rerwin and ask advice.

rerwin's area of expertise is wireless modems. But that's a wifi adapter, not a wireless modem.
That wifi device should work fine with Puppy.

Let's not confuse ethernet adapters with wifi adapters and wireless modems.
The device in question is an ethernet adapter - pci ID 1969:2060, Atheros AR8152.
I will look into the driver situation shortly.

tempestuous, I didn't know rerwin only did the gprs modems.
Do you do the Ethernet and WiFi's then?

The only way I know to know more about that code for a device is the lspci command and the Pupscan script.
Is there a better way?

kent41, you need the updated atl1e ethernet driver, available for Puppy 4.3.x here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 846#467846

tempestuous wrote:kent41, you need the updated atl1e ethernet driver, available for Puppy 4.3.x here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 846#467846

I don't know how to thank you except to say thanks thanks thanks you not only made my day but many days in the future. Also thanks for converting it to a .pet

It works great and now I don't have to return the netbook to the store.
Kent

Success and thanks for putting SOLVED.

tempestuous:

Thanks big guy.
I did it a little bit differently....restarted x server.

Acer Netbook >> eMachines eM350-21G16i

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 071#468071

You are a bloody terrific bloke Tempe...
as are all the past and present network gurus of this forum.

a la Jeff Fenech....I love youse all.

" The Marrickville Mauler is back for one more round.

A street thug made good, he was an Aussie battler who’s catch cry

“I Love You’se all.

I have the same issue.

Netbook: ACER ASPIRE ONE AOD255E-13248 10.1-INCH NETBOOK PC
Ethernet card: Atheros AR8152 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)
Location: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0
Windows Driver: C:/Windows/system32/DRIVERS/L1C62x86.sys
Driver Version: 1.0.0.35 Driver Date: 24/08/2010
OS: Latest Version of Puppy Linux - Lupu, Lucid 5.2

Puppy Linux doesn't detect ethernet card on netbook as it has no Linux drivers for it.

Tried to download the PET package and install it. Still the card is not recognized.

When I try to probe for module, something like 8239 or so is being detected. I tried to load a few other modules for Atheros, all didn't work.
Rebooting PC, restarting puppy, reinstalling the PET package, replugging network cable etc., didn't work.

rvijay wrote:OS: Latest Version of Puppy Linux - Lupu, Lucid 5.2

Tried to download the PET package and install it. Still the card is not recognized.

rvijay, the atl1e dotpet under discussion here is for Puppy 4.3, with the 2.6.30.5 kernel. That's made clear in the title of the thread where you downloaded the dotpet from: "Extras for Puppy 4.3 with 2.6.30.5 kernel"

Drivers (kernel modules) for the 2.6.30.5 kernel are completely incompatible with the more modern kernel in Puppy 5.1/5.2.

I have provided an updated version of the atl1e driver for Puppy 5.1/5.2 here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 845#467845
This is probably (?!) what you need, but if you still have no success, we need to know the exact device ID of your ethernet device. So if you still need help, please run this command - and report the results.

Thanks that worked.