Atheros AR8151 ethernet not working Installed 10.

04 on an Acer TimelineX 3820TG but can't get the ethernet to work. Code: $ sudo lshw -C network *-network UNCLAIMED description: Ethernet controller product: AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Atheros Communications physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 version: c0 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:3000(size=128) Tried to add atl1e to /etc/modules with no luck. The driver from http://partner.atheros.com/Download.aspx?id=125 won't work eithe r (error in script on make). Any suggestions? It makes perfectly for me. You need build-essential and linux headers-generic. Y ou also need to precede to 'make' with 'sudo su.' I got the linux headers-generic installed. And the driver should already be in the kernel: /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko What driver are you using for the AR8151? I do not have the device; I was merely pointing out that the version you can dow nload from Atheros will make correctly. I believe the pci.id for your device is 1969:1073. Verify with: Code: lspci -nn If so, your device is not supported in the built-in version of atl1e, but is in the version you can build from what you downloaded: Code: # modinfo atl1e filename: version: license: author: ng@atheros.com> /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko 1.0.1.9 GPL Atheros Corporation, <xiong.huang@atheros.com>, Jie Yang <jie.ya

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Post back if you get stuck. Yes, it says 1969:1073: lspci -nn 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit E thernet [1969:1073] (rev c0) When I run make (as root) from the downloaded driver src folder I get this error : /bin/sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected make: *** [default] Error 2 The correct Makefile is in the directory above. I notice that untarring the tar. gz splatters stuff all over the /home directory; bad practice, in my opinion. Le t's try this: Code: mkdir AR81Family mv AR81Family-Linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz AR81Family cd AR81Family tar zxvf AR81Family-Linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz sudo su make install modprobe atl1e exit As I said before, you must have build-essential installed. gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Beende mit Fehlerstatus aufgrund vorheriger Fehler OH w0000t?! I ignored this echo of the terminal and continued with sudo make install and it worked ._. without the need of a restart _ I'm heavily impressed of ubuntu thank you man but now I have one additional question: can you imagine why my sound is not working anymore when i plug in external spea kers? and when i unplug them i can hear the system sounds again... Last edited by audiocrush; June 3rd, 2010 at 04:41 PM..