NIC card not detected on Asus U81A

[Guest]

Dear all,

I recently purchased an Asus U81A from Bestbuy. For the most part I am happy with it except the fact that I can't get the following two things working:
1) Screen brightness and more importantly 2) NIC interface

I appreciate any help on getting the above two problems fixed. My wifi works fine but there is no sign of eth0.

Here are some hardware information on my network:
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lspci:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1063 (rev c0)
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lshw -C network:
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless WiFi Link 5100
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 00
serial: 00:22:fa:59:32:8c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=192.168.1.3 latency=0 module=iwlagn multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: Attansic Technology Corp.
vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
version: c0
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: pan0
serial: b2:7b:dd:dd:58:88
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes
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Windows vista recognizes my NIC as: Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit

[dibl]

Re: NIC card not detected on Asus U81A

You may have to compile your own driver for that Atheros chip -- I remember there was a certain Attansic chip that had that problem.

Do a search on Ubuntu Forum on the chip model and see what you can turn up there. There is a "how to" somewhere, for that driver.

[Guest]

Re: NIC card not detected on Asus U81A

I managed to find a solution to the NIC card. I found a lot of discussions on this matter in some other Ubuntu forum and can't remember where. Here is what I did:


1- Obtain the driver from here: http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx
2- Download the following driver: AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz
3- Untar/zip this file: tar -zxf AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz
The unpacking process may produce some errors/warning. I simply ignored them.

4- Follow the compilation and installation procedures in the readme file.
5- Load the driver: modprobe arl1e. This loaded the drive and instantly eth0 was detected. From this point nothing else is required.

I also found a new driver for Mobile Intel 4 series. Go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troublesho...telPerformance and follow the instructions in section 13. This did not fix all the display problems but fixed some.

-Homay

[dibl]

Re: NIC card not detected on Asus U81A

Thanks for posting the solution!

Now, if you could "edit" your original post, and add "SOLVED" at the front of the title, this will be a great resource for the next person with the same problem.

Thanks!