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kikinovak 02-13-2014 11:09 PM
Toshiba Satellite Pro L70: Atheros AR8161 Ethernet card not working
 
Hi,

I have a brand-new Toshiba Satellite Pro L70 (see also previous post for the video card problem) with an Atheros AR8161 network card, which turns out to be a notwork card.

Any idea how to get this kind of hardware working with Slackware64 14.1?

JackHair 02-14-2014 01:12 AM
From googling some I found it needs the alx module. From what I read I think you need to patch your kernel to get it to work.

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/colla...networking/alx

kikinovak 02-14-2014 03:54 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JackHair (Post 5117424)
From googling some I found it needs the alx module. From what I read I think you need to patch your kernel to get it to work.

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/colla...networking/alx
Unfortunately this refuses to compile on a stock Slackware64 14.1 installation. Tried both with the HUGE and the GENERIC kernel.

JackHair 02-14-2014 04:42 AM
It looks like the 3.14rc kernel does have alx built-in, maybe that's an option.


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