Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. I have installed a PCI card that is working, but I would like to have the (better) on board chip working. I have used it from the Linux Format remastered Ubuntu 12.04 live CD, so there is obviously a Linux driver for it. I have Googled and found only references to how well it works in Linux. I also found references to its being free and in the kernel. I cannot find a driver. I have installed 3.2.0 from Squeeze Backports without success. (That is to say, the upgraded kernel has not helped the situation. It installed without a hitch.) I have done a cold reboot. The video works without any problems and I have not so far done anything about the complaints that both Amarok and Kaffeine make about the lack of driver for sound, since I have not yet trouble-shot alsa. For me, sound is a pleasant addition, not a necessary adjunct. I must be missing something very simple, possibly in my Google-foo. At anyrate, PEBKAC probably looms large. Any suggestions as to what else I could try? Thank you. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209201627.12418.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 16:27:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: Any suggestions as to what else I could try? I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lspci'. Yes? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120920154211.GP20063@desktop
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. I have installed a PCI card that is working, but I would like to have the (better) on board chip working. I have used it from the Linux Format remastered Ubuntu 12.04 live CD, so there is obviously a Linux driver for it. I have Googled and found only references to how well it works in Linux. I also found references to its being free and in the kernel. I cannot find a driver. I have installed 3.2.0 from Squeeze Backports without success. (That is to say, the upgraded kernel has not helped the situation. It installed without a hitch.) I have done a cold reboot. The Gigabyte specs say it is an Atheros chip, but there are several different Atheros GbE chips out there, we need to know which one. Please post the section for the chip from the output of lspci -v Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=-fed7_g9tc1t0kp1r-7x2gfz1qshfs4rkxcysu2qg...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:42:11 Brian wrote: On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 16:27:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: Any suggestions as to what else I could try? I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lspci'. Yes? Doh.:-( PEBKAC. :-( lisi@Tux-II:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0150 (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0152 (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e31 (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e3a (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e2d (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 1e20 (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e10 (rev c4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e14 (rev c4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e26 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e44 (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e02 (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 1e22 (rev 04) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1083 (rev c0) 03:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 30) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) lisi@Tux-II:~$ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209201654.08611.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:43:10 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. [snip] The Gigabyte specs say it is an Atheros chip, but there are several different Atheros GbE chips out there, we need to know which one. Please post the section for the chip from the output of lspci -v 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Memory at f7c0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: access denied Kernel driver in use: 8139too Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209201659.24939.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 16:43:10 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: My on-board ethernet chip is not working in Debian Squeeze. [snip] The Gigabyte specs say it is an Atheros chip, but there are several different Atheros GbE chips out there, we need to know which one. Please post the section for the chip from the output of lspci -v 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Memory at f7c0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: access denied Kernel driver in use: 8139too Sorry, that is your other card. you want the one that goes with the line: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1083 (rev c0) The extra info in the -v version shows what, if any, driver is currently attached to the device. Thanks, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=9hunoghpi6f8pgla1tq+t1tef1mqn6flff95buot+...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:42:11, Brian wrote: On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 16:27:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: Any suggestions as to what else I could try? I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lspci'. Just for the archives: the -nn option for lspci is very useful to identify devices ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 19:50:34 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:42:11, Brian wrote: I suppose we could look at the specs for your motherboard to get an idea of what the chipset is but you're going to tell us after doing 'lspci'. Just for the archives: the -nn option for lspci is very useful to identify devices ;) I'd expect someone to read the manual before executing a (possibly) unknown command and choose options which would maximise the information to be provided. :) But you are correct; -nn does give more useful information. -knn adds driver detail which, in this case, is desirable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120920171250.GQ20063@desktop
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:27:12, Lisi wrote: Any suggestions as to what else I could try? Anything interesting in the logs/dmesg? Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the correct module is 'atl1c'. Try 'modprobe atl1c' and see if you get some interesting output, possibly only in the logs. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 21:25:10 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:27:12, Lisi wrote: Any suggestions as to what else I could try? Anything interesting in the logs/dmesg? Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the correct module is 'atl1c'. Try 'modprobe atl1c' and see if you get some interesting output, possibly only in the logs. How about lsmod | grep atl1c before doing that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120920192006.GR20063@desktop
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thursday 20 September 2012 18:12:50 Brian wrote: But you are correct; -nn does give more useful information. -knn adds driver detail which, in this case, is desirable. 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1083] (rev c0) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:e000] Kernel driver in use: atl1c 03:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 30) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] Kernel driver in use: 8139too The Realtek is indeed working, it is the one I am using. The Atheros is not. I had discovered both that the driver needed was the atl1c and that it ought to be in the kernel, but had assumed that I had made a mistake somewhere because it is not working in Debian, although it worked with Ubuntu 12.04 remix live CD. I didn't think of quizzing Ubuntu's kernel. If the correct driver is in use, why does it not work in Squeeze? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209202058.51296.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0100, Lisi wrote: If the correct driver is in use, why does it not work in Squeeze? Does dmesg show anything about missing firmware files? The driver is loaded but it can’t maybe initialise the device without firmware which may not be installed because it is non-free. Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thursday 20 September 2012 21:10:24 Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0100, Lisi wrote: If the correct driver is in use, why does it not work in Squeeze? Does dmesg show anything about missing firmware files? The driver is loaded but it can’t maybe initialise the device without firmware which may not be installed because it is non-free. Stephan Yes, I thought exactly that, but have no idea how to find said firmware. Which is where we came in, I'm afraid. I can only find one line that refers at all to the Atheros: [1.284753] atl1c :02:00.0: version 1.0.1.0-NAPI Thanks for the input. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209202131.42582.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thursday 20 September 2012 19:25:10 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 16:27:12, Lisi wrote: Any suggestions as to what else I could try? Anything interesting in the logs/dmesg? Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the correct module is 'atl1c'. Try 'modprobe atl1c' and see if you get some interesting output, possibly only in the logs. Hope this helps, Andrei Thanks, Andrei. root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# modprobe atl1c root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# [1.284753] atl1c :02:00.0: version 1.0.1.0-NAPI Nothing else that I could see. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209202134.01021.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thursday 20 September 2012 20:20:06 Brian wrote: Based on the info you provided in other messages it seems like the correct module is 'atl1c'. Try 'modprobe atl1c' and see if you get some interesting output, possibly only in the logs. How about lsmod | grep atl1c before doing that? lisi@Tux-II:~$ lsmod | grep atl1c atl1c 31785 0 lisi@Tux-II:~$ Thanks, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209202135.13569.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 21:10:24 Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0100, Lisi wrote: If the correct driver is in use, why does it not work in Squeeze? Does dmesg show anything about missing firmware files? The driver is loaded but it can’t maybe initialise the device without firmware which may not be installed because it is non-free. Stephan Yes, I thought exactly that, but have no idea how to find said firmware. Which is where we came in, I'm afraid. I can only find one line that refers at all to the Atheros: [1.284753] atl1c :02:00.0: version 1.0.1.0-NAPI I do not think it needs firmware. I verified in source that in the 3.2 kernel, the atl1c driver includes the hardware ID 1083. The related driver atl1e does not, so it is not that. At least through 3.4, atl1c is marked experimental... What do you get with ifconfig -a? I see references to doing: echo 1969 1083 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/atl1c/new_id But I think that would apply for cases where the atl1c driver did not yet include that hardware ID and this version does... Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=_shhfpsdi5k9vfkizeo182jho92vps5wwj0j_06a_...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 20:58:51 +0100, Lisi wrote: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1083] (rev c0) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:e000] Kernel driver in use: atl1c [1969:1083] is what we would expect as a device identifier. So that's ok. The kernel driver is loaded; lsmod also indicates the same. That's ok. Firmware has been mentioned as something which is needed. What does /sbin/modinfo atl1c say? I can see no sign in the output relating to firmware. So everything seems good to go. Except it doesn't. Let us see what the output of 'ifconfig -a' is. Also, are you using Network Manager? Give us a peek at your /etc/network/interfaces file, please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120920214210.GT20063@desktop
SOLVED and thank you was: Re: Drivers for ethernet chip on the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard.
On Thursday 20 September 2012 22:42:10 Brian wrote: On Thu 20 Sep 2012 at 20:58:51 +0100, Lisi wrote: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1083] (rev c0) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:e000] Kernel driver in use: atl1c [1969:1083] is what we would expect as a device identifier. So that's ok. The kernel driver is loaded; lsmod also indicates the same. That's ok. Firmware has been mentioned as something which is needed. What does /sbin/modinfo atl1c say? I can see no sign in the output relating to firmware. So everything seems good to go. Except it doesn't. Let us see what the output of 'ifconfig -a' is. Also, are you using Network Manager? Give us a peek at your /etc/network/interfaces file, please. Somewhere in all the questions and my attempts to answer them, it is now working. (As a result perhaps of the modprobe?) A massive thank you to all of you. And no, I never use Network Manager. If I want a manager for my network, I use wicd. But only for laptops, which have to be able to work in lots of different places. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209202338.41165.lisi.re...@gmail.com
