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Originally Posted by TobiSGD
Although I said that I won't post in this thread anymore, I just have one thing to say. The r8168 and r8169 modules are for Realtek-chips, but you have an Atheros-chip. The r8168/9-module will simply not work for you.
I posted that also back in post #25 in this thread.
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Hello there,
You are absolutely right! i made a mistake, i downloaded both the atheros and realtek drivers and put them in one folder. Believe me i thought i was dealing with atheros driver all along..i'm sorry 4 everything. Now i'm using the atheros driver but not so sure whether it is the exact one. My computer's ethernet chip is AR8151 pci-E gigabite ethernet controller but i can't find the same name but i got the general AR81Family for linux. it comes as a compressed tar file i.e AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz, so i untar it using tar xvfz [pckg name]. I then moved to the src file, ran make install and i got the following result:
[root@localhost tmp]# cd src/
[root@localhost src]# make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64'
CC [M] /tmp/src/at_common_main.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1e_main.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1c_main.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1c_hw.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1e_hw.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1e_param.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1c_param.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1e_ethtool.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/atl1c_ethtool.o
CC [M] /tmp/src/kcompat.o
LD [M] /tmp/src/atl1e.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/src/atl1e.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/src/atl1e.ko.unsigned
NO SIGN [M] /tmp/src/atl1e.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64'
gzip -c ../atl1e.7 > atl1e.7.gz
# remove all old versions of the driver
find /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 -name atl1e.ko -exec rm -f {} \; || true
find /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 -name atl1e.ko.gz -exec rm -f {} \; || true
install -D -m 644 atl1e.ko /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
/sbin/depmod -a || true
install -D -m 644 atl1e.7.gz /usr/share/man/man7/atl1e.7.gz
man -c -P'cat > /dev/null' atl1e || true
Formatting page, please wait...
i then ran ifconfig
[root@localhost src]# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 b) TX bytes:480 (480.0 b)
virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E2:50
5:4D:0C:10
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
I then ran system-config-network-tui but still there's nothing loaded!
Any idea what's going on?
:-)
Installing Ethernet Driver returns Error
