<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Success! Ethernet port on ASUS Eee PC is up and working.<div><br></div><div>Here are the steps taken</div><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Download AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz from <a href="http://www.opendrivers.com/modeldriver/Atheros_Network_AR8152-driver-download.html">here</a>.
(downloaded file should be .tar)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Unzip the .tar and read the readme and follow the numbered steps<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Rename the .tar to AR81.tar<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>copy to flash drive then proceed as
follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Install GCC and make (and rpm build) *rpm build probably not needed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">yum install gcc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">yum install make<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">yum install rpm-build<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Move the base driver tar file to /library/public/AR81 (or other convenient location)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Untar/unzip archive:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">tar xf AR81.tar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Get the kernel headers (netbook needs to be on the internet)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Change to the driver src directory and compile:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">cd /library/public/AR81/src/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">make install<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Go to the driver directory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">cd /lib.modules/2.6*/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>(atl1e.ko
should be in the directory)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Install the module<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Insmod atl1e.ko<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Remove the rule file to clear the NIC hardware files<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">cd /etc/udev/rules.d<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">rm 70-persistent-net.rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Restart using the Ethernet port as the WAN port.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><br></span></p>
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<div><div>On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Andra DuPont wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Martin,<br>Thanks.... I'll give it a try.<br><br>On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Andra DuPont <<a href="mailto:andradupont@gmail.com">andradupont@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'm installing XS 0.6 on an ASUS Eee PC with an Atheros AR8132 Network Chipset<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">which is not supported on the current XS distribution.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Looks like you need <a href="http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx">http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx</a> - grab the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">linux driver. It has a readme that looks promising.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It'll probably require that you install gcc, make, and the kernel headers.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">m<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- School Server Architect<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - ask interesting questions<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>