[wplug] eeePC + Xubuntu

[Janos Dohanics]

On Saturday 14 March 2009 09:40:17 pm Ted Rodgers wrote:
> >>                description: Ethernet controller
> >>                product: Attansic Technology Corp.
> >>                vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
>
> Based on your lshw output, the driver you should need is called atl1  Try
> "modprobe atl1" and check the output of ifconfig -a to see if it then
> recognizes your network card.  

Unfortunately, "modprobe atl1" doesn't change the output of ifconfig -a; no 
wired NIC (other than the external USB NIC) shows up.

> If that fails, you could try another module 
> named atl1e, 

Unfortunately, atl1e is not found...

> which is a pcie specific version of wired atheros cards 
> (Attansic and Atheros wired gig cards are the same chips)  Unfortunately, I
> cannot verify that either of these modules would be available in the kernel
> version included in your distro, but the atl1 driver was first available as
> far back as the 2.6.25 kernels and the atl1e first appeared in the 2.6.27
> kernel releases.

What's worse, in a previous install attempt when I upgraded to 8.10, I not 
only didn't have the wired NIC driver, but also lost the wireless one.

BTW, FreeBSD 7.1 did not detect neither the wired or wireless NICs either.

I'd just hate to put Windows on this computer...

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Janos Dohanics