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I have a i3-2220 in a Asus P8H77-V mother board, with 8 Gb of RAM, and a 40 Gb intel SSD.
I have loaded 14.0x86_64. I also have the book, Slackware Essentials, which has been a big help.
It boots up, I sign in as user then root, KDE comes up at the root command kdm, it works well. But I can not get the system to find the LAN, and then make the connection to the Internet.
I have not been able to make use of chapter 5 – Network Configuration.
I would like someone that could help. My understand of the command line seem to be inadequate.
It boots up, I sign in as user then root, KDE comes up at the root command kdm, it works well.
If you are booting to runlevel 3 (the default in a fresh install), then you are best to start your GUI with 'startx'. You can select your choice of GUI prior to running startx with 'xwmconfig'
Making allowance for the likelihood that you have manually transferred the information, it does seem likely that you need the alx kernel module.
Summarising from the links I gave and transferring to the Slackware way of doing things.
1. From https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ts/2013/03/28/ download the file compat-drivers-2013-03-28-5-u.tar.xz (This can be done from any computer with internet access, such as the one you last posted from).
2. Transfer the file to your Slackware install e.g. use a USB key
3. Extract the file using 'tar xvf compat-drivers-2013-03-28-5-u.tar.xz'
4. Get into the directory that is created. 'cd compat-drivers-2013-03-28-5-u'
5. Run './scripts/driver-select alx'
6. Run 'make'
7. As root, create a directory for the module in the /lib/modules tree. 'mkdir /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/'
8. As root, copy the kernel module into the /lib/modules tree. 'cp ./drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/'
9. As root, update the module dependencies with '/sbin/depmod -a'
10. As root, test with 'modprobe -v alx'
I have tested up to step 6. If all else fails, fit a supported network card in your PC
Last edited by allend; 06-12-2013 at 07:57 AM.
Reason: Fixed typo in 9. depmode->depmod
I believe that you are correct, I did manualy transfer the device ID and probably left off the intro. I will check that and see what I can get done on the rest. This amy take a day or two.
Sorry for the delay. Too many things going on in my life.
Allend:
The full line from; /sbin/lspci is:
03:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 1091 (Rev 08)
All:
I am guessing that the model number does not change things any. I still need the alx drivers.
I tried, but only got part way.
I down loaded the file: compat-drivers-2013-03-5-u.tar.xz and copied it to a CD.
The CD is loaded into the slack computer and I can find the file both in terminal mode and with KDE.
In KDE, I can also find the alx file. However, there is no indication that tar xvf works. I also do not get anything that makes sense to me from KDE, and therefore am not sure that the file has been compiled. Either the whole file or the alx folder. In the KDE help system I found information on how to make a file. But, do not know what to do with the 3 lines of code.
KDE is brand new to me and the command line only a little better.
I have the driver file on a CD and on my desktop in Ubuntu. What to do now?
Copy the file compat-drivers-2013-03-5-u.tar.xz from the CD to your Slackware system using the Dolphin file manager.
Then use 'Shift-F4' to open a Konsole terminal window. Proceed from step 3 in post #9
I think that I managed to get it un-tarred (extracted). I extracted a copy to /home/thomas/ and it showed up there. There are 4 atl drivers in the package.
Which One? My system is 1 gigabit. The lspci gives it as device 1091. There are too many applications for the Atheros drivers to find this on either the Atheros or Asus sites. I will assume either ATL1E or ATL1C. Any comments?
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