Acer Aspire 1410 / 1810T Ethernet LAN does not work

[tehowe]

This issue hasn't existed for me since about kernel 2.30 ish, but I guess if you're trying to compile the drivers it's because it's not working for you... What laptop/ethernet chipset is it?

Hi Mitch these are the two devices that weren't detected;

>lspci
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 1000 Series

The laptop is the Acer1410 ('olympic') netbook as well.

I don't know if the following will help, but people usually ask for this info...

> sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 00:26 x x x x
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.1-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:16 memory:93500000-9353ffff ioport:2000(size=128 )
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: WiFi Link 1000 Series
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:1e x x x x
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:28 memory:92500000-92501fff

Thanks for any help you can provide. This notebook's like a year old and the network card worked fine under Wubi so it should work, but doesn't.

Update: I tried the 'acpi=off' suggestion in grub, no change.

[mitch_feaster]

Interesting... I have the exact same ethernet controller and it's all working for me in Lynx without driver-compiling fun... I can't comment on the wifi chipset...

[tehowe]

Interesting... I have the exact same ethernet controller and it's all working for me in Lynx without driver-compiling fun... I can't comment on the wifi chipset...

Do you think it might have something to do with Studio and their special 2.6.32-21-preempt x86_64 kernel?

But that should be the same as the standard fork kernel except for the audio interrupts, right? (I don't really understand the architecture yet, so I'm working off of instinct.) =/

Too bad really, this is like the perfect little Ubuntu netbook. Hopefully it can get sorted out.

[mitch_feaster]

Do you think it might have something to do with Studio and their special 2.6.32-21-preempt x86_64 kernel?

But that should be the same as the standard fork kernel except for the audio interrupts, right?

Oh man, that sounds like fun! I'm afraid I honestly have no idea, but my instincts agree with yours. It would be interesting to see what kernel configuration messed with the ethernet driver...

[tehowe]

Oh man, that sounds like fun! I'm afraid I honestly have no idea, but my instincts agree with yours. It would be interesting to see what kernel configuration messed with the ethernet driver...

I found something on this old thread about an HP card notebook problem that helped...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=12

You plug in your ethernet and type

sudo dhclient eth0

Then you

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wicd

The mysterious incantations worked. Wicd doesn't look like the standard Lynx network manager, it seems to be some older Python app but it works and I'm on wired eth0. It detects wireless networks too, though my corporate network is password protected and I haven't gotten on there yet. Looking good though.