Stowell Davison wrote:


I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an
on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is
device is an "Atheros AR8161L".

Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and /var/log/messages
contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful substring thereof. There
are no *eth0* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.


By default FC17 makes up odd names for interfaces, look at "ifconfig -a" for it.
There is a config option to fix it, but no config option to use a MAC to name
conversion file so the name on the card is fixed. I'm looking at that, but in my
spare time. If have have just one NIC, the config will let always be eth0.


I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network
connections from the machine using MS Windows.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Stowe Davison
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On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@alldigital.com> wrote:

On 09/06/2012 07:28 AM, Stowell Davison uttered this comment:




I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. *The machine

has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). *According to the machine's spec

sheet, that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".




Atheros stuff is normally wi-fi, not wired. I'm not saying it isn't the

hardwire port but it wouldn't be common.

There is also a wifi port; and that seems to be working -- If I click the connection icon I see a list of the various available wifi hotspots in the neighborhood.* But I think the AR8161L is a wired device (and there is _some_ wired device there -- I mean, there's an RJ-45 jack through which Windows was getting to the internet).* The entry on the motherboard spec sheet says:

*Network
LAN: 1000-Base-T
*** Interface: Integrated into motherboard
*** Technology: Atheros AR8161L
*** Data transfer speeds: up to 10/100/1000 Mb/s
*** Transmission standards: 1000-Base-T Ethernet







Fedora does not see that interface device at all. *Dmesg and

/var/log/messages contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful

substring thereof. *There are no *eth0* files in

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.




In F17, unless you did an upgrade from a previous release and told udev

to keep the old name, the port will be named something based on the bus

and device IDs, like "p4p1" or "em1" or something. Try "ifconfig -a" as

the root user to see if the device is actually showing up.

ifconfig -a shows two devices:* lo and wlan0.

Stowe Davison
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On 7 September 2012 02:08, Stowell Davison <swdavison@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@alldigital.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/06/2012 07:28 AM, Stowell Davison uttered this comment:
>>>
>>>
>>> I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine
>>> has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec
>>> sheet, that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".
>>
>>
>> Atheros stuff is normally wi-fi, not wired. I'm not saying it isn't the
>> hardwire port but it wouldn't be common.
>
>
> There is also a wifi port; and that seems to be working -- If I click the
> connection icon I see a list of the various available wifi hotspots in the
> neighborhood. But I think the AR8161L is a wired device (and there is
> _some_ wired device there -- I mean, there's an RJ-45 jack through which
> Windows was getting to the internet). The entry on the motherboard spec
> sheet says:
> Network
> LAN: 1000-Base-T
> Interface: Integrated into motherboard
> Technology: Atheros AR8161L
> Data transfer speeds: up to 10/100/1000 Mb/s
> Transmission standards: 1000-Base-T Ethernet
>

According to http://www.jfdesignnet.com/?p=2133 it will show up in
lspci as something like this:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1091 (rev 10)
And really is an ethernet controller.
See my other mail to the list for further suggestions on getting it working.

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Solved!* Many thanks.* Details below...

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com> wrote:


On 6 September 2012 15:28, Stowell Davison <swdavison@gmail.com> wrote:



>

> I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. *The machine has

> an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). *According to the machine's spec sheet,

> that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".

>

> Fedora does not see that interface device at all. *Dmesg and

> /var/log/messages contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful

> substring thereof. *There are no *eth0* files in

> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.

>

> I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network

> connections from the machine using MS Windows.

>

> Thanks for any suggestions.

>

> Stowe Davison

> http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison

>



This appears to need the alx driver:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx
*

Solved!*



Many thanks, Ian.* The alx driver from the URL you provided above did the job.* There are installation instructions there on the web site.* There were a couple of glitches in the "make" because I lacked some necessary packages for the build, but the error messages were clear.* The HP h8-1320t is now communicating on its ethernet port.



Thanks again to all who responded.

Stowe Davison



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