Acer Aspire 1410 / 1810T Ethernet LAN does not work

[Prikolchik]

On Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Ethernet LAN card on Acer Aspire 1410 (aka 1810T) is recognized, but does not work out of the box. To get it to work you have to install the driver from Atheros as suggested by Homay over at Kubuntu forums

Step 1. Make sure you have the correct LAN card.

lspci -nn | grep Ethernet

should give

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Device [1969:1063] (rev c0)

Windows reports this card as Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit

Step 2. Download the driver sources.
Go over to the Atheros driver page and download AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz

Step 3. Unpack the driver.
cd to where you saved the driver file and type:

tar -zxf AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz

The unpacking process may produce some errors/warnings - simply ignore them.

Step 4. Compile and install

cd src/
make
sudo make install

That is it. Now you can either reboot the machine or type:

sudo modprobe atl1e

and you LAN card should work!

In case you get stuck there is a README file included with the driver.

Cheers!