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!

[MRRT]

I want to thank you.
It really work on my wife's aspire notebook.

[juliansuddaby]

Thanks for this!

[brelovich]

Thanks a bunch!

Works great, with the exception of the driver name. Instead of this:

sudo modprobe arl1e

I need to do this:

sudo modprobe atl1e

I don't know if this is a typo or some subtle difference in the hardware. I've got a Swedish Acer 1810T and the output from lspci is exactly the same.

[Prikolchik]

Thanks a bunch!

Works great, with the exception of the driver name. Instead of this:

sudo modprobe arl1e

I need to do this:

sudo modprobe atl1e

I don't know if this is a typo or some subtle difference in the hardware. I've got a Swedish Acer 1810T and the output from lspci is exactly the same.

You are right. I have a typo in my instructions.

[mitch_feaster]

Has anyone tried this in 9.10? When I try to compile the driver I get the following errors:

mgalgs@cobalgz:~/src/atheros/src$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/at_common_main.o
  CC [M]  /home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.o
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c: In function ‘atl1e_request_irq’:
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:156: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘request_irq’ from incompatible pointer type
include/linux/interrupt.h:116: note: expected ‘irq_handler_t’ but argument is of type ‘void (*)(int,  void *)’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c: In function ‘atl1e_probe’:
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:287: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘open’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:288: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘stop’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:289: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:290: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘get_stats’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:291: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘set_multicast_list’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:292: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘set_mac_address’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:293: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘change_mtu’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:294: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘do_ioctl’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:305: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘tx_timeout’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:313: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘vlan_rx_register’
/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.c:316: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘poll_controller’
make[2]: *** [/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src/atl1e_main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/mgalgs/src/atheros/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
make: *** [default] Error 2

I've got the same lspci output and everything. I'm using an ACER Aspire 5739G.

[tehowe]

Okay, so

tar -zxf AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz
cd src/
make
sudo make install

I've tried this and simply received a 'Linux Kernel Source Not Found. Stop." error on either of the make commands specified in this thread. This is on Ubuntu Studio Lynx.

I found this manpage about installing a driver called alc for the Atheros network card, will see how that goes...

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...d.html#toptoc7

It calls for putting two lines in your kernel configuration file.

device miibus
device alc

Update: Where's the kernel config file?

[mitch_feaster]

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?

[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...