Atheros linux driver ar8132

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Hello, all. I have an absolutely bizarre hardware issue (concerning the Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller) that has been giving me quite a bit of grief for a while, and having completely hit a wall on this one, I’m reaching out for help.

I’m a reasonably-experienced Linux user of several years, and had been running Ubuntu 9.10 on an Acer AOD250 netbook for several months out. I know that this model has wireless issues out-of-the-box (easily fixed), but it did not have any noticeable ethernet issues. That is, until I attempted an installation of Arch.

During the installation, the ethernet card was initially detected, but unable to be used (because of a bad module in the kernel released with the installer). As I didn’t know the fix for this at the time, I decided to reinstall Ubuntu 9.10. This time, however, the system failed to recognize the wired ethernet whatsoever. Instead, the external activity lights for the port (green and orange) are ALWAYS on, yet the device doesn’t function.

I have done a successful install of the latest drivers directly from Atheros for the device and have them automatically loading with the kernel during boot, but as the device isn’t recognized, the drivers aren’t doing any good.

root@niobium:~# ifconfig -a 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:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B) pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a2:13:34:bd:b2:bc BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0c:60:76:42:9c:fb inet addr:192.168.1.107 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::e60:76ff:fe42:9cfb/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5021 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3810 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5328753 (5.3 MB) TX bytes:739212 (739.2 KB)

root@niobium:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Judging by the name, the Atheros AR8123 uses a PCI-E (express) adapter. Especially curious is the following section of the output:

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)

I suspect that my «lost» ethernet card may be on the mysteriously-absent Port 3.

My knowledge of hardware manipulation from the terminal is very limited, and I have no idea where to go from here, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Drivers for a Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card

My brother brought me a Toshiba P505-S8980 with Windows 7 (64 bit) on it and I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it, after much trial, and trying to find a edition of the distro that had a compatible graphics driver and resolution. That finaly worked, but now my issue is that I can’t find a driver for the Ethernet card (Atheros AR8132) and though I found a driver for the WLAN card, it still doesn’t connect. I have heard that there are proprietary drivers available in a couple of repositories for the Atheros card, but I cant connect the machine to the internet, so that doesn’t help, and the drivers I have found that are said to be available for the card are either incompatible or uncompilable. Can anyone help?

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Has an Ubuntu Drip

Re: Drivers for a Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card

Are you tried with the in installation of software driver GUI in Gnome? I think Ubuntu should suggestion some driver to install.

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Re: Drivers for a Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card

The more you use Linux: the better it gets. The more you use Windows: the less you want to use it.
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Has an Ubuntu Drip

Re: Drivers for a Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card

I mean, the properties driver. In System -> Administration -> Propertie Drivers. I don’t remember very well.

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Re: Drivers for a Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card

Yes I have tried that, but as I said in my first post, that wont work because I am not connected to the internet.

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Re: Drivers for a Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card

they said: Impact: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter fails to operate
in Jaunty due to the lack of driver support.

Fix: Backport the atl1c driver from Karmic back to Jaunty.

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Re: Drivers for a Atheros AR8132 Ethernet card

Hi, don’t know if you’re still having this issue, but in case you or anyone else is:

OP said he was using 9.10, although also said he searched for an «edition of the distro» that supports his hardware (not sure what that means). Anyhow, I’m surprised that 9.10 didn’t work out-of-the-box for AR8132 since I believe that that the _desktop_ installation media contains a working driver (atl1c). If not, 10.04 does. In both cases, however, you either must install from the so-called «desktop» installation media, or if installing from «alternate» media, apply the work-around listed in bug #557130:

Once you’ve installed, connect to internet using a wire, and let the GUI install the proprietary wireless drivers if necessary, as was previously posted here; from then on, failure to connect via wireless is likely not a driver issue, but something else.

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driver installation for Atheros AR8132 FastEthernet interface

driver installation for Atheros AR8132 FastEthernet interface

#1 Post by eole73 » 2022-07-18 16:26

I’m quite new in the linux world although I started working with it since a few months now. A few days ago, I had worked on installing an OS based on debian (Q4OS) on an old Asus laptop from 2009 (my mum’s actually). This computer is currently running with Vista but quite labouriously, so the aim of the shift for Linux would be to improve and simplify its functioning. To check the installation and configuration I used a VM on my computer. I believe I set and checked almost everything fine but I just lacked the drivers for the network adaptators (ethernet and wifi). The current version of Q4OS is using Debian 11 Bulleyes with kernel 5.10.0.

The ethernet network adaptator on this laptop is an Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet. After searching for some time on the web, I downloaded this compressed file : compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u.tar.bz2 found here : https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/alx ,that I understand may contains the driver for this adaptator (reading in the compressed file it has atl1c, atl1e, atl1x and alx files).

But I am a bit stuck here. What should I do then to install the network interface driver at this point from this file? Does this compressed file indeed contains the driver for this network adaptator (it seems this is the case as it is said in the webpage of the previous link that the atl1c driver provides support for the AR8132 chipset). Also, reading a bit more about this, it seemed that the drivers in this file are based on old kernels (2.6.x or 3.x ?), so is it nonetheless possible to install these drivers on the recent kernel of Debian 11?

Any advice to how install a functionnal driver for this network adaptator would be much appreciated! (I have read other subjects on this hardware but it couldnt really help me)

ps : I still lack the driver for the Wifi interface also (Atheros AR928X), so any advice for installing a driver for this one would also be much appreciated, but my main need is to get an ethernet connection working with the Atheros 8132.

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