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Chris Tooley <[log in to unmask]>
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Chris Tooley <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:41:00 -0700
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Chris Tooley wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Chris Tooley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Turns out there is a driver on the P5Q CD for an Atheros AR8121/AR8113
>>> Ethernet Adapter.  I ran make && make install and it works!!
>>>
>>> I think lspci was mistakenly identifying it...
>>>
>>> If you need more information let me know what commands you'd like to see.
>> Could you follow the instructions on the Device ID page of the ELRepo site at:
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs
>>
>> and show us the vendor:device ID pairing of your Ethernet device?
>>
>> Akemi
> 
> 
> Following those instructions I get these results:
> ============================
> [root@<machinename> ~]# lspci | grep -i Ethernet
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit 
> Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
> [root@<machinename> ~]# lspci -n | grep '02:00.0'
> 02:00.0 0200: 1969:1026 (rev b0)
> ============================
> Looking it up on the list, it looks like I should have tried the atl1e 
> controller.
> 
> This is interesting though, because the source code that I compiled to 
> get the network working identified itself as an "Atheros(R) 
> AR8121/AR8113 PCI-E Ethernet Adapter", and looking further into the 
> README in the source directory it references "arl1e" several times.
> 
> Is this the same as the atl1e driver? I assume it's proprietary vs OSS.. :)
> 
> I'm going to uninstall the source compiled driver after I download the 
> proper atl1e RPM and see if the atl1e RPM works. I will report back 
> afterwards giving results.
> 
> Also, is "driver" the proper moniker to use in this case? Should I be 
> saying "module"?  Just out of curiosity...
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Chris

The atl1e module works. Thanks for clearing this up for me!

-Chris

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