ATTANSIC L1 Gigabit on-board NIC not supported.
 

Hello,

I am running Slackware-11.0 on Asus M2N8-vmx motherboard having ATTANSIC L1 Gigabit NIC on board. My kernel is test26.s. I have installed kernel modules from /testing directorey. But NIC is not working. What is the solution? Should I recompile the kernel? Or should I use any other kernel module for the NIC?

Thanks for your help,

Anand

First post the output of 'lspci'.

This is my lspci output:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d0 (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 1969:1048 (rev b0)


Anand

Indeed it is an unknown device, and you did install the modules, so the driver simply is not there. So you must install it. And I think I found the place:
http://atl1.sourceforge.net/

"Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet driver for Linux" ... try that. Oh, and make sure you have the kernel source installed and symlinked properly in order to build a kernel module.

I have installed kernel source. But what do you mean by 'symlinked properly'? Can you please elaborate? Please pardon my ignorance.

Anand

/usr/src/linux points to your current kernel source.

Sorry. Yeah, that's the most important one. There's also '/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build' and '/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source'. If you installed the kernel source from the slackware package, I think these should have been created properly, so don't worry too much about it.

Thanks H_TeXMeX_H and others for help. It worked after I compiled the driver from source.

Anand

Great ... did you use the vendor version or the sourceforge version ? (Either one should work fine ... just would like to know for future reference)

I used the vendor version 1.0.41.0 released on Sept 29, 2006 since it is for kernel-2.6.18. I did not try the sourceforge version.

Anand

FYI, the atl1 driver is now part of the kernel as of version 2.6.21, which was released 26 April 2007. (I realize that wouldn't help Anand with his 2.6.18 kernel, though.)