Atheros Ethernet Network not working --need help [SOLVED]

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Hi everyone,

I’ve just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a desktop I built and I’m having a problem with a network card, so I’d appreciate some help. I think it’s a driver issue, but I cannot be sure. I’ve tried going through a few instructions I found online, but couldn’t get it to work. I’ve put the output from some of the commands I ran below:

lshw output
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: Atheros Communications
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: c0
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:fea00000-fea3ffff ioport:e000(size=128)

lspci output
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1705
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9644
00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1714
00:10.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB XHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:10.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB XHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 43a0
00:15.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 43a1
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1700 (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1701
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1702
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1703
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1704
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1718
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1716
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1719
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1083 (rev c0)

ifconfig output
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:8304 (8.3 KB)  TX bytes:8304 (8.3 KB)
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Can you run:

lspci -vnn

and post back any sections that contain “Ethernet Controller”

Similar to these 2 sections:-

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:015b] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44 I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Memory at 71010000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at 71000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at 71020000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e008]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at 75200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k

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Thanks for the reply Mark, but I’ve just managed to get it working. I’d downloaded some Atheros drivers and tried to compile them and they failed, but I just found one that compiled and installed properly. The ones I downloaded which failed were called AR81Family-Linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz and AR81Family-Linux-v1.0.1.12.tar.gz. The one I downloaded that did work was AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.19.tar.gz. Again, thanks for the help Mark.

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Cheers for the update … that info may help someone else in the future.

Oh, and welcome to the forum :slight_smile: