i recently installed 13.1 onto my acer one nav50. ive got wireless no problems but cant make the network card appear.

found some links that suggest module atl1c should work. it hasnt yet.
here is the output from lspci:

root@jot:/home/darryl# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Pineview DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tigerpoint LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
root@jot:/home/darryl#

and from lsmod:
root@jot:/home/darryl# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 1107 0
snd_seq_oss 25580 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4620 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 42857 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 4543 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 33917 0
snd_mixer_oss 13399 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 229909 20
pcmcia 27872 0
pcmcia_core 25659 1 pcmcia
cpufreq_ondemand 6917 2
speedstep_lib 2683 0
acpi_cpufreq 5705 1
freq_table 2027 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
atl1c 26686 0
fuse 52401 1
ath9k 65211 0
ath9k_common 2033 1 ath9k
mac80211 153050 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath9k_hw 207118 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 6820 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
fan 2702 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 185089 1
i915 263263 2
snd_hda_intel 18936 2
snd_hda_codec 57091 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
drm_kms_helper 23751 1 i915
uvcvideo 54940 0
thermal 10194 0
joydev 7989 0
snd_hwdep 5046 1 snd_hda_codec
drm 133002 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
cfg80211 109656 4 ath9k,ath9k_common,mac80211,ath
videodev 32975 1 uvcvideo
snd_pcm 57736 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
rtc_cmos 7838 0
rfkill 12812 2 cfg80211
processor 26515 3 acpi_cpufreq
i2c_algo_bit 4355 1 i915
psmouse 40750 0
intel_agp 22699 1
video 15937 1 i915
i2c_i801 7194 0
v4l1_compat 13004 2 uvcvideo,videodev
rtc_core 12050 1 rtc_cmos
usbhid 33016 0
thermal_sys 12086 4 fan,thermal,processor,video
snd_timer 15699 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
ac 2423 0
battery 7944 0
rtc_lib 1522 1 rtc_core
sg 21214 0
button 3934 1 i915
wmi 5343 0
evdev 6939 18
i2c_core 15279 6 i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,videodev,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
hid 61027 1 usbhid
serio_raw 3754 0
hwmon 1085 1 thermal_sys
agpgart 23773 2 drm,intel_agp
led_class 2037 1 ath9k
snd 43107 15 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd _hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 4815 1 snd
output 1444 1 video
snd_page_alloc 5849 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
root@jot:/home/darryl#


any ideas?

The only nic displayed in your lspci is the wireless one.
Your missing -
Check the BIOS to make sure it's not disabled, or has power saving enabled. On some systems that dual boot between Windows and Linux, Windows likes to enable power saving on some hardware (puts them to sleep). Linux has known issues waking most devices up. In the past this has plagued many on board RTL nics, and currently some Intel nics.

I found a complete lspci for this machine - http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46036050/Lspci.txt

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thanks disturbd1,

this is a tricky one!

bios has no facility for disabling lan or any power saving facilities. the bios features are very limited.

i dont have a dual boot system... just a straight install of slackware64 13.1. there was of course a version of vista that came with the compy, maybe it put the nic to sleep permanently!

i also tried passing a few different combinations of parameters to the kernel at boot like:
nic=atl1c
ether=28,0,eth0
ether=0,0,eth0
noudev
none of them resurrected the ethernet card. also tried booting into the slackware setup dvd. "lspci" shows the same results.

im assuming my card isnt fried as it was working in vista that it first came dressed in. not sure where to go from here!

problem solved!

looks like you were right disturbed1. my network card was happily sleeping away until i tried this option from bios Boot Manager:
Network Boot: Atheros Boot Agent

i was hoping it might scare the card into life and apparently it did. ethernet card is now awake and breathing!

cheers,
darryl