hello Alan and Earl, All was you told me had to be considered, which takes some reflexion and time.
As I could not connect to the internet in a first time of 5 weeks, with a new low-price asus-x75vc computer, after reading your advices, I found some "alx" reference on http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/elrepo/elrepo/el6/i386/RPMS/kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm http:///linuxsoft.cern.ch/elrepo/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm this driver works for my Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) > lspci -nn | grep -i -e net > -------------------------- > > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE > 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01) > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 > Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10) So I understand following: alx driver is not supported in standard releases of scientificLinux-6 but "alx" driver works for some old versions of hardware integrated on asus computer as if they were new. important thing for me is that it works. not to can access internet with a newly buyed computer is a special experience. now perharps, Alan could we brainstorm to understand if there is a logical hole in the the knowledge about asus or artheros hardwares. if you need other data, please tell me. Thanks to you both for the decisive help you brought when I was travelling. Charles ________________________________ De : Alan Bartlett <[email protected]> À : "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc : Charles Elsaesser <[email protected]> Envoyé le : Jeudi 4 juillet 2013 23h51 Objet : Re: artheros-8161 card not usuable under standard linux On 4 July 2013 02:33, Charles Elsaesser <[email protected]> wrote: > > lspci -nn | grep -i -e net > -------------------------- > > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE > 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01) > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 > Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1091] (rev 10) Thank you for that information. I was hoping that what Earl had previously advised would have resolved your problem but, unfortunately, no it will not. If you search the Device IDs page [1] (on the ELRepo Project's web-site) for the pairing 1969:1091 there is no match. Hence no driver is available from that source. The only other option I can see is to check the kernel-lt [2] and kernel-ml [3] packages from the same source. This is what I find -- [quote] [Duo2 ~]$ rpm -qa kernel\* | grep -vE 'dev|fir|head' | sort kernel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 kernel-lt-3.0.84-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 [Duo2 ~]$ grep 1969 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 1091 /lib/modules/3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001969d00001091sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alx [Duo2 ~]$ [/quote] The first command line shows the kernels that I have installed on this system, the second command line shows that your particular Atheros NIC is supported by the alx module which is only present in the latest kernel-ml-3.10.0-1.el6.elrepo package. I hope this information will help. Alan. [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt [3] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
