Lenovo G480 / Atheros AR8162 woes: unable to initiate wired/dsl

[sanhing]

Woo hoo! That is awesome news! Great job.

As with any driver or module that's compiled from source code, it was compiled against your running kernel version only. When you get updates and get a newer kernel version, also known as linux-image, you will need to recompile:

cd Desktop/compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc
make clean
./scripts/driver-select alx
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe alx

You might copy these instructions to your desktop so you'll recall when the time comes.

The alx driver is a new arrival and you've worked out a successful install. So the searchers can find the fix, please use thread tools at the top and mark Solved.

I make note of your remarks concerning a newer kernel. Again, many thanks!

[Mythek]

Dear god, finally its been days since i could find this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[roni21]

hello, i have a lenovo y580, which has a similar atheros ar8162. i followed the procedure written here. but still no luck. in the network menu i am not getting anything. no wifi and no lan connection. FYI i am connected to a wifi router.

[chili555]

similar atheros ar8162

Similar?? Let's have a look:

lspci -nn | grep 0200
sudo modprobe alx
dmesg | grep alx

no wifi

This is an ethernet device, not wifi.

[roni21]

well, it worked now. i am from ubuntu now
i got some error msg with the driver file you posted.

roni@roni-Lenovo-Y580:~/compat-wireless-2012-09-05$ make
./scripts/gen-compat-autoconf.sh /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/.config /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/config.mk > include/linux/compat_autoconf.h
make -C /lib/modules/3.2.0-29-generic-pae/build M=/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic-pae'
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/main.o
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat-3.3.o
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat-3.4.o
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat-3.7.o
/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat-3.7.c: In function ‘pcie_flags_reg’:
/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat-3.7.c:37:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘pci_find_capability’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
include/linux/pci.h:713:5: note: expected ‘struct pci_dev *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct pci_dev *’
/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat-3.7.c:41:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘pci_read_config_word’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
include/linux/pci.h:756:19: note: expected ‘struct pci_dev *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct pci_dev *’
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat_atomic.o
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/sch_fq_codel_core.o
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/flow_dissector.o
LD [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/compat.o
CC [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/sch_codel.o
LD [M] /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/compat/sch_fq_codel.o
scripts/Makefile.build:44: /home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/Makefile'. Stop.
make[3]: *** [/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/roni/compat-wireless-2012-09-05] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic-pae'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

then i found this http://askubuntu.com/questions/15722...atheros-ar8162 and downloaded compat-wireless-2012-09-01-pc.tar.bz2 file...then it worked. may be you can tell about my problem, so that it might help others. but this is really frustrating when you cant access internet due to driver issue. i am lucky that i have another machine beside.

[chili555]

roni@roni-Lenovo-Y580:~/compat-wireless-2012-09-05

Hmmm. There was a reason that I did:

My long delay in responding was because I was working out how and where to get it working.

And therefor there was a reason I did:

compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc

...because it works.

[roni21]

hmm...now i have another problem...my wifi is not working i just restarted to windows. but if you are online then i can go back i spent almost an hour for ethernet driver

[chili555]

hmm...now i have another problem...my wifi is not working i just restarted to windows. but if you are online then i can go back i spent almost an hour for ethernet driver

If you want to get your wireless going, I suggest you start a new thread. This thread refers to Atheros ethernet and the driver alx.

[ymblrin]

Chili555, thank you very much for the steps to enable ethernet on ubuntu.

I had to do the below before "sudo make install" in addition:
"
sudo mv /usr/sbin/update-grub ~/ug.bk; sudo touch /usr/sin/update-grub; sudo chmod a+x /usr/sbin/update-grub;
"
in order to bypass grub update. My live kubuntu 12 uses syslinux boot manager and not grub.

I do not know the long-term consequences of moving update-grub yet.

[trajektorijus]

Hi there,

i followed all the step and eth0 appeared, but i still can't connect to the internet via ethernet...

lspci -nn | grep 0200
sudo modprobe alx
dmesg | grep alx

Results:

trajektorijus@trajektorijus-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y580:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0200
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 08)
trajektorijus@trajektorijus-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y580:~$ sudo modprobe alx
trajektorijus@trajektorijus-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y580:~$ dmesg | grep alx
[   26.025103] alx 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   26.025105] alx 0000:02:00.0: DMA to 64-BIT addresses
[   26.025119] alx 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   26.025180] alx 0000:02:00.0: (unregistered net_device): HW Flags = 0x415
[   26.025590] alx 0000:02:00.0: (unregistered net_device): reset PHY, pws = 1, az = 0, ptp = 0
[   26.026947] alx 0000:02:00.0: (unregistered net_device): speed = 0x2f, autoneg = 1
[   26.027975] alx 0000:02:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[   26.028234] alx: Atheros Gigabit Network Connection
[  292.458570] alx 0000:02:00.0: eth0: speed = 0x2f, autoneg = 1
[  974.582372] alx 0000:02:00.0: eth0: speed = 0x2f, autoneg = 1
[ 1817.587433] alx 0000:02:00.0: eth0: speed = 0x2f, autoneg = 1
trajektorijus@trajektorijus-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y580:~$

ifconfig:

trajektorijus@trajektorijus-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y580:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr dc:0e:a1:f0:60:7f  
          inet addr:10.10.11.85  Bcast:10.10.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::de0e:a1ff:fef0:607f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:214 errors:0 dropped:7 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:7
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:28119 (28.1 KB)  TX bytes:157867 (157.8 KB)
          Interrupt:16 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:3107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:304397 (304.3 KB)  TX bytes:304397 (304.3 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 9c:4e:36:18:5e:4c  
          inet addr:88.118.228.186  Bcast:88.118.229.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::9e4e:36ff:fe18:5e4c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:51960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:31935 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:52478089 (52.4 MB)  TX bytes:4210118 (4.2 MB)

lshw -C network:

trajektorijus@trajektorijus-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y580:~$ sudo lshw -C network  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 08
       serial: dc:0e:a1:f0:60:7f
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx duplex=full firmware=alx ip=10.10.11.85 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:46 memory:d3600000-d363ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Wireless-N 2200
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: c4
       serial: 9c:4e:36:18:5e:4c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.2.0-31-generic firmware=18.168.6.1 ip=88.118.228.186 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:44 memory:d3500000-d3501fff

What i did wrong? Wireless works fine.