P5Q Ethernet help

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

I recently bought an asus P5Q board for pcie2 support, But I cant seem to get the onboard Ethernet to work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131295
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=709&l4=0&model=2164&modelmenu=2

All the asus site says about the eth controller is "PCIe Gb LAN controller featuring AI NET2". I have read about a lot of people having problems with this board, but mostly with the sata controller (my sata drives come up fine). I really hope I can get this working in linux, because right now I am using onboard for windows, and an older pci lan card for linux, and I cant find its windows drivers... so I have to switch the eth cable every time I boot into a different OS.

I have tried both the sky2 and skge kernel modules.
I will post the lspci and dmseg output when I get home.

cassiol · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject:

heloooo

your network card is Atheros L1e.
patch your kernel with http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121635231210679&w=2
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cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

Ive never had to patch my kernel before. I use gentoo-sources, how would I go about patching it? thank you :-)

btw, lspci output

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:

This may only apply to recent kernels, but support for your NIC is included, and does not require a patch.

cassiol · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject:

helooo

i agree cyrillic.. not more necessary patch the kernel.
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cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

I believe I tried that, and it didnt work, but I'll try again.

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

I just tried it again, and it did not work. Could the "Atheros L1e" be the controller in the "delux" or "pro" edition, and not the one I have?

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject:

I was confused for a minute there too, but then I found out that Atheros and Attansic have merged, so they are now the same company.

The Attansic driver in the kernel should be the right one, according to the lspci output you posted, but you may need a newer (like 2.6.26) kernel version if your hardware is very recent.

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

yes, my hardware is fairly recent, I will try a newer kernel.

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

will I run into problems if I unmask all versions of gentoo-sources? If the kernel has been released as stable, it shouldn't have anything too bad.

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

With the gentoo-sources 2.6.26 (latest in portage) it still doesn't work.

cyrillic · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

Can you be more specific about what part doesn't work ?

Try these commands to see how far you get.

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

Right now I am in my gentoo install, using an old 3com pci Ethernet card, which is running as "eth1".

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

My kernel .config file has "CONFIG_ATL1=y".
I built it into the kernel, not as a module, so I guess thats why it can't be modprobed.

cassiol · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:54 am Post subject:

helloo

please post dmesg | grep atl1
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cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

Doesn't return anything.

NoAngel · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 7

I think, it's better to rebuild kernel, compiling ethernet adapter(s) as kernel module. Then install kernel (better to keep old one), reboot, use modprobe <Your module name here>, lsmod...

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

I modprobed it:

swimmer · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

Same here - I can modprobe atl1 and it even gives me an interface but I can't connect :-/

Any other possibilities? Otherwise I have to fall back to an old 100mb-realtek card

Greetz
swimmer

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

Is there any chance that the P5Q does not use an "Atheros L1e" card?

cyrillic · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 19488471 4096-byte hardware sectors (79825 MB)
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdc: sdc1
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth1: setting half-duplex.
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

swimmer · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:

I managed to get it working with a little help of this workaround ... of course it's a solution for an Ubuntu environment but you can easily adapt it to your Gentoo box ;-)

HTH
swimmer

cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

So it works for you? do you know if it would work in a 64-bin enviorment?

swimmer · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:21 am Post subject:

It works for me indeed and I can't answer your question since I decided to go for 32-bit :-/

Greetz
swimmer