New hardware, Mobo Problems

**XBMC old School** · January 21st, 2014

Hey all,

Been looking online for Tuts to fix my problem and have had no luck. I got a new z87n Mobo and none of the LANS or the WIFI work. I figure at least one of the Atheros would have worked out of the box. Right now I'm at a loss. I am going to run 13.10 as a liveCD to see if it supports it. I am on Ubuntu 12.04 now, but have a 12.3.6 compiled kernel. I have run dmidecode & lshw to determine what intel, Atheros & wifi card is on the board.

Intel Connection 1217-V
Qualcomm Atheros AR8161

**chili555** · January 21st, 2014

have a 12.3.6 compiled kernel.

What is that?? Please open a terminal Ctrl+Alt+t and show us:

Code:

uname -r

Your description of your network devices is plenty brief. How about:

Code:

lspci -nn | grep -e 0200 -e 0280

That funny pipe symbol | is on the right side of my US keyboard on the same key with \. Thanks.

**XBMC old School** · January 22nd, 2014

Hey Chili555: Ya my apologise I mistyped, my Current Kernel is 3.12.3

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00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-V [8086:153b] (rev 05)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1] (rev 73)

Nice NUC dude

**chili555** · January 22nd, 2014

Nice NUC dude

Thanks! Unlike most of you guys, I'm not using mine as an HTPC. I use it for photo editing attached by HDMI to a 24" monitor that's calibrated regularly.

00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-V [8086:153b] (rev 05)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1] (rev 73)

Every one of these should work with kernel version 3.12.x. The wireless does require firmware which we will address. First, the ethernet; I am surprised that your mobo has two different brands of ethernet; or did you add one? I suggest you attach the ethernet cable to one of the ports and then let's load the drivers for both and examine the logs to see what happens:

Code:

sudo modprobe alx
sudo modprobe e1000e
dmesg | tail -n10

Once we see what the result is, we can proceed.

Now let's load up the wireless firmware:

Code:

cd /lib/firmware
sudo mv iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode  iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode.bak  <--If it doesn't exist, that's OK, just proceed
sudo wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode

Unload and reload the driver so it sees and uses the newer firmware:

Code:

sudo modprobe -r iwldvm
sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi
sudo modprobe iwlwifi

Please note and post any errors, warnings, smoke, sparks, etc.

**XBMC old School** · January 28th, 2014

Hey Chili,

Feel like a douche but I did a full wipe of my install and loaded Ubuntu-gnome 13.10. Now I'm into the awesome "out of the box" functionality that is Ubuntu.

**chili555** · January 28th, 2014

Originally Posted by XBMC old School

Hey Chili,

Feel like a douche but I did a full wipe of my install and loaded Ubuntu-gnome 13.10. Now I'm into the awesome "out of the box" functionality that is Ubuntu.

We're glad it's working! Have fun!