On-board ATTANSIC Gigabit L1 NIC does not work in Slackware-12.0
 

Hello,

I have Asus M2N8-VMX MB which has on-board ATTANSIC Gigabit L1 NIC. I have installed Slackware-12.0. With default kernel, i.e., hugesmp.s the NIC does not work. But this NIC is working perfectly in Zenwalk-4.6.1 which has kernel 2.6.21.3. I tried to compile driver for this NIC from sources available at http:/atl1.sourceforge.net without success.

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 GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (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: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)


This is my lsmod output:

Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 6788 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50640 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10508 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42784 0
snd_mixer_oss 18048 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 254496 12
capability 7304 0
commoncap 9344 1 capability
agpgart 31432 0
lp 13736 0
parport_pc 27812 1
parport 34760 2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr 6528 0
psmouse 39048 0
mii 8576 0
serio_raw 9220 0
ata_generic 9220 0
sg 30364 0
pata_amd 13964 0
evdev 11904 1
snd_hda_intel 20248 0
snd_hda_codec 209152 1 snd_hda_intel
k8temp 8320 0
hwmon 6404 1 k8temp
shpchp 33172 0
snd_pcm 72068 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 22532 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 47204 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 9824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11528 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm


What is the solution?

Thanks for your help,

Anand

Does slack 12 use the 2.6.21.5 kernel? If yes, what happens if you modprobe atl1? Can you configure the device after modprobing?

When I run modprobe atl1 I get the following error message:

FATAL: Module atl1 not found.

Anand

kprims@hawk:/boot$ grep -i atl1 config
# CONFIG_ATL1 is not set
kprims@hawk:/boot$ ls -la config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2007-06-26 11:41 config -> config-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp

Thanks kprims.

rsamurti, that's your problem. The atl1 module wasn't compiled for your kernel.

Solved!
 

I got the source for the driver from
ftp://hogchain.net/pub/linux/attansi....2.40.0.tar.gz

Did make install and modprobe atl1. It worked.

Thanks everybody for your support.

Anand