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eddyloko

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Registered: 2013-02-13

Posts: 4

can't get any network device to work

hi, i'm having big troubles with an asus x55u with every linux distro i have tried...

so now i'm trying with slitaz but i'm not getting anywhere either...

and i'm a big newbie with this forum stuff so i don't know how the markup things work, sorry

so, using:

lspci -nn | grep -i net

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:5390]

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1091] (rev 10)

neither device shows up on the taz panel

with ubuntu i got the atheros device to work with the alx driver but on slitaz i don't know how to install it...

and the ralink device never worked... even on windows i have troubles with it...

and i'm using slitaz 4.0

thanks

Guest

Guest

Re: can't get any network device to work

Looks like your machine needs firmware drivers to make it work (with network interfaces).

On all other distros that I've used, they go in /lib/firmware, (I'm not on SliTaz at the moment), so if you have any firmware from your previous distro, you could try putting them in there (as root user), & then reboot to see if they have been picked up by the system.

eddyloko

Member

Registered: 2013-02-13

Posts: 4

Re: can't get any network device to work

i still have ubuntu installed...

but how do i find out which firmware is the right one? or should i copy everything?

i have used on ubuntu:

[c]lshw -C network

*-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 84:4b:f5:29:ed:c4
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.5.0-23-generic firmware=0.34 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:16 memory:fea00000-fea0ffff
  *-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: 10
       serial: 30:85:a9:f5:cf:3a
       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=192.168.0.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:46 memory:fe900000-fe93ffff ioport:e000(size=128)[/c]
then:

[c]modinfo rt2800pci | grep -i firmware
firmware:       rt2860.bin[/c]
then i saw that my installed slitaz already has that firmware but how do i "connect" it to my device?

also:

[c]modinfo alx
filename:       /lib/modules/3.5.0-23-generic/updates/cw-3.6/alx.ko
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
description:    Qualcomm Atheros Gigabit Ethernet Driver
author:         Qualcomm Corporation, <nic-devel@qualcomm.com>
srcversion:     4B465918E2F9F1965718F6F
alias:          pci:v00001969d00001090sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001969d00001091sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        compat
vermagic:       3.5.0-23-generic SMP mod_unload modversions[/c]
there's no firmware field for the alx driver and i have searched for a file named alx but haven't found any... i have no idea of which firmware it uses...

ernia

Member

Registered: 2011-05-20

Posts: 299

Re: can't get any network device to work

you may want to check this

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

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: can't get any network device to work

No firmware required for alx.

Ralink firmware-rt2x00-20120227.tazpkg is included on Slitaz-4.0 release and core iso

atlxx-compat-2.6.37.tazpkg

[c]# tazpkg install atlxx-compat-2.6.37.tazpkg[/c]

[c]# modprobe alx[/c]

Guest

Guest

Re: can't get any network device to work

So, looks like you should be OK if you use SliTaz 4.

(I would still make a backup copy of your (Ubuntu) /lib/firmware, just in case.)

eddyloko

Member

Registered: 2013-02-13

Posts: 4

Re: can't get any network device to work

ernia, i have tried that link... it didn't work, i have extracted the files to the home folder but when i execute: [c]./scripts/driver-select alx[/c], it gives an error saying there's no bash file or directory.

mojo, i managed to install the packages, the wifi icon showed up on the panel and it also shows the available networks but as it happens on ubuntu i can't connect. still, the alx driver doesn't seem to be working because there's no eth0 on the ifconfig.

ernia

Member

Registered: 2011-05-20

Posts: 299

Re: can't get any network device to work

can you see eth0 in

ls /sys/class/net/

if yes try

ifconfig eth0 up

or

udhcpc -i eth0

eddyloko

Member

Registered: 2013-02-13

Posts: 4

Re: can't get any network device to work

[c]udhcpc -i eth0[/c] worked!

now there's just the wireless to fix...

ernia

Member

Registered: 2011-05-20

Posts: 299

Re: can't get any network device to work

wait for mojo, he's the  wireless guru :-)

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: can't get any network device to work

Remove rt2x00-compat-2.6.37.tazpkg

[c]# tazpkg remove rt2x00-compat-2.6.37.tazpkg[/c]

Download: rt5390sta-2.6.37.tazpkg

[c]# tazpkg install rt5390sta-2.6.37.tazpkg[/c]

[c]# modprobe rt5390sta[/c]