Hi All,
I have found a way to get the Qualcomm Atheros Bigfoot Killer E2200 ethernet card to work with existing Atheros linux drivers. Following in the footsteps of this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12028162. I have basically 'stolen' the driver of a related card with existing linux drivers.
I have created a patch to be applied to the compat-wireless kernel modules. After application of this patch and procedure, my ethernet card worked.
The module which will be modified is alx, and after I told the kernel to load it explicitly by editing /etc/modules, My ethernet card was discovered at startup and properly suspended and hibernated. I can verify that gigabit speeds are possible with this 'stolen' driver.
I haven't had any probles yet, but I will post a reply to this thread if a problem appears at some later date, or Atheros releases a proper driver for this card.
You will need to install a few packages
You will need to download the compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p tarball from here: http://linuxwireless.org/download/co...5-10-p.tar.bz2Code:sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers
And download the attached compat-patch.txt.
Untar the tarball into a convenient location, and apply the patch making sure to use the --dry-run option to make sure there are no errors.
Now make and assuming no errors arise, install the package.Code:tar -xvf /path/to/compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p.tar.bz2 cd ./compat-wireless-2012-05-10-p.tar.bz2 patch --dry-run -p2 < /path/to/compat-patch.txt patch -p2 < /path/to/compat-patch.txt
Now test that the module works by inserting it into the running kernel.Code:make sudo make install
Your ethernet card should be discovered, and assuming you have the ethernet plugged into a working jack with dhcp, you should become connected to ethernet.Code:sudo modprobe alx
Assuming this is the case, modify your /etc/modules file so that this module is loaded at startup by adding the following lines at the end.
And you're good to go. Let me know how this works out for you.Code:#E2200 support alx
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