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.

[mitch_feaster]

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

After setting acpi=off in grub2 everything just worked (i.e. I didn't need to compile drivers)... It "fixed" the wifi too...

[baronrouge]

Latest version of the driver from http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx worked great for me on 9.10 with the above instructions. Not sure what went wrong as it had been working fine for days since install, seems fixed now anyway.

EDIT: Actually it didn't. After couple of restarts I'm back to square 1. I'll try acpi=off in GRUB and report

[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?