centos 5.9+atheros NIC

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centos 5.9+atheros NIC

Post by atux » 2013/07/18 15:51:39

I am running centos 5.9 and my pc has an onboard ethernet card that cannot see it.
lspci gives me
Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit ethernet (rec c0)
is there a way to make it work since i do not have any connection to LAN?

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centos 5.9+atheros NIC

Post by gerald_clark » 2013/07/18 16:11:22

Welcome to CentOS.
New members need to read
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=47

Check the FAQ at elrepo.org.

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Re: centos 5.9+atheros NIC

Post by toracat » 2013/07/18 16:11:29

Find out if ELRepo's kmod-alx package works for your device. This [url=http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=396]entry[/url] in the ELRepo bug tracker will give you more detailed info.

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Re: centos 5.9+atheros NIC

Post by AlanBartlett » 2013/07/18 17:49:25

[quote]
toracat wrote:
Find out if ELRepo's kmod-alx package works for your device. This [url=http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=396]entry[/url] in the ELRepo bug tracker will give you more detailed info.
[/quote]
That is for EL6, whereas the OP is using [i]CentOS 5.9[/i] i.e. EL5.

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Re: centos 5.9+atheros NIC

Post by atux » 2013/07/19 05:56:26

Hi.
thanks a lot for the replies. As i mentioned earlier there is no connection to Internet since the NIC is not working.
i have tried to manually download the file and install it through a USB, but no luck.
i will try to use the getinfo script to collect the info manually to usb and export it to this thread, unless someone has an idea.

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Post by toracat » 2013/07/19 17:24:21

Not so good news. [b]NedSlider[/b], who successfully backported code to build kmod-alx for EL6, says it is not a trivial task to do the same for EL5. This means that there will not be kmod-alx for CentOS-5. :-(

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Re: centos 5.9+atheros NIC

Post by atux » 2013/07/22 09:43:13

i have tried modprobe atl1e
it worked.

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