Wired connection of Qualcom card not working, can't compile drivers

srd · 04-22-2015, 10:06 AM

Hi

I installed Ubuntu 14.10 on my Lenevo Ideapad Y510P and I can't get my wirded connection to work. The wlan is working fine, but when I turn it off and leave only the wired one it tries to connect for some time and then just displays offline message. I think that my card is installed correctly:

Code:

srd@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ ifconfig
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
              RX packets:3487 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:3487 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
              RX bytes:621148 (621.1 KB)  TX bytes:621148 (621.1 KB)

    p3p1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 28:d2:44:2a:7d:5c  
              inet6 addr: fe80::2ad2:44ff:fe2a:7d5c/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:16351 errors:0 dropped:87 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:98346
srd@ubuntu:~/sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       logical name: p3p1
       version: 10
       serial: 28:d2:44:2a:7d:5c
       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 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:50 memory:c2500000-c253ffff ioport:3000(size=128)
  *-network
srd@ubuntu:~$ modinfo alx
filename:       /lib/modules/3.16.0-34-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx.ko
license:        GPL
description:    Qualcomm Atheros(R) AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver
author:         Qualcomm Corporation, <nic-devel@qualcomm.com>
author:         Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
srcversion:     A8A24DC0B21D72803977AB3
alias:          pci:v00001969d000010A0sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001969d000010A1sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001969d00001090sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001969d0000E091sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001969d00001091sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        mdio
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.16.0-34-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 
srd@ubuntu:~$ lsmod |grep alx
alx                    36680  0 
mdio                   13561  1 alx

I read that I need special drivers for my card, but it seems that I can't compile them (i tried 2 versions):

Code:

srd@ubuntu:~/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su$ scripts/driver-select alx
    Processing new driver-select request...
    Backup exists: Makefile.bk
    Backup exists: Makefile.bk
    Backup exists: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Makefile.bk
    Backup exists: drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/Makefile.bk
    Backup exists: Makefile.bk
    Backup exists: Makefile.bk
    Backup exists: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Makefile.bk
    srd@ubuntu:~/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su$ sudo make
    ./scripts/gen-compat-autoconf.sh /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/.config /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/config.mk > include/linux/compat_autoconf.h
    make -C /lib/modules/3.16.0-34-generic/build M=/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su modules
    make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-34-generic'
      CC [M]  /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/compat/main.o
      LD [M]  /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/compat/compat.o
      CC [M]  /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.o
      CC [M]  /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_ethtool.o
    /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_ethtool.c: In function ‘alx_set_ethtool_ops’:
    /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_ethtool.c:1804:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘SET_ETHTOOL_OPS’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
      SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(dev, &alx_ethtool_ops);
      ^
    cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
    scripts/Makefile.build:257: recipe for target '/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_ethtool.o' failed
    make[4]: *** [/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_ethtool.o] Error 1
    scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target '/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx' failed
    make[3]: *** [/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx] Error 2
    scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target '/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros' failed
    make[2]: *** [/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros] Error 2
    Makefile:1345: recipe for target '_module_/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su' failed
    make[1]: *** [_module_/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-3.9-rc4-2-su] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-34-generic'
    Makefile:89: recipe for target 'modules' failed
    make: *** [modules] Error 2
srd@ubuntu:~/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u$ sudo make
make -C /lib/modules/3.16.0-34-generic/build M=/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-34-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.o
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_dispatch_skb’:
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:700:4: error: too few arguments to function ‘__vlan_hwaccel_put_tag’
    __vlan_hwaccel_put_tag(skb, ntohs(tag));
    ^
In file included from /home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:22:0:
include/linux/if_vlan.h:350:31: note: declared here
 static inline struct sk_buff *__vlan_hwaccel_put_tag(struct sk_buff *skb,
                               ^
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_set_vlan_mode’:
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:1141:17: error: ‘NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  if (features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX)
                 ^
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:1141:17: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_fix_features’:
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:1158:17: error: ‘NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  if (features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX)
                 ^
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:1159:15: error: ‘NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX’ undeclared (first use in this function)
   features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX;
               ^
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_set_features’:
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:1176:18: error: ‘NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  if (!(changed & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX))
                  ^
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_probe’:
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:2637:10: error: ‘NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX’ undeclared (first use in this function)
          NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX |
          ^
/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c:2640:43: error: ‘NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  netdev->features = netdev->hw_features | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX;
                                           ^
scripts/Makefile.build:257: recipe for target '/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.o' failed
make[4]: *** [/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.o] Error 1
scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target '/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx' failed
make[3]: *** [/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx] Error 2
scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target '/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros' failed
make[2]: *** [/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros] Error 2
Makefile:1345: recipe for target '_module_/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/srd/Downloads/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-34-generic'
Makefile:89: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2

nini09 · 04-27-2015, 03:28 PM

Do you installed source code of linux kernel for the distribution?

srd · 04-27-2015, 08:14 PM

lately I have found a version of backports that actually compile (3.10.19) I have installed the qualcome drivers abut that didn't help the problem (they should be in the Kernel anyway). When I try to type dhclient p3p1 the console prints nothing and of course the connection is not established.

nini09 · 04-28-2015, 03:30 PM

Based on ifconfig output, p3p1 is up and running except IP address. You can use static IP address at first to verify the network.