Attansic Ethernet Card not detected
 

Dear All,
I am a complete newcomer (as in case of newborn baby) to Linux World. The fact is, till day before yesterday I was happy with MS Windows XP Pro SP2 and had never given a second thought about other OS.

After getting a link from one of my colleagues, I happened to get aware about Linux. On my self venture, I went on going through the reviews of Linux as an OS (compared with Windows) in the internet. I was just overwhelmed to learn about the robust features of this OS.

I thought why not give it a try...

After going through various available distribution, finally I decided to go with UBUNTU (as many reviews told that it is bit easier for a newcomer to get accustomed to). I downloaded the distro from the Ubuntu site itself (the file name was: ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso) in 5 hours on broadband connection. The MD5 check was also okay. I burnt the image into an RW CD.

The preliminary partitioning and the overall installation was fine with minor glitches.

The first time Ubuntu loaded, I was spellbound by its GUI appearance. After playing with the help/guide,[b] when it came to configuring the net connection, I was blasted! My OnBoard Ethernet card was not detected!

My Hardware specs are:
1. ASUS P95GC-MX motherboard
2. Onboard Attansic Ethernet Card
3. PCI Sound Card (from Frontech)
4. NVIDIA 6200-GT Video Card with 256MB

Though I have the driver CD of the Attansic Ethernet Card, but I CANNOT install the drivers in UBUNTU environment.

I can't survive without internet, please some one help me with step by step guide.

Again, I KNOW NOTHING REGARDING LINUX stuffs.....

PLEASE HELP....

THANKS in advance...

Hey there! Don't fret :)

From Windows or another computer, Google for something like 'Linux Attansic drivers for Ubuntu' or something like this.
The Attansic device(s) is/are supported under Linux, up to very new devices such as those on the newer nVidia motherboards.

You'll need to know the model name/number of your device, and with any luck, you will be able to locate a Ubuntu/Debian version of the Attansic driver for Linux, which will include instructions for how to install it on your system

Also, look into Ubuntu's built-in updating tool (Synaptic, I believe, but don't quote me) and search it for the correct driver for your device.

Also, do a search here on LQ, particularly in this Hardware forum, AND in the Ubuntu area, for threads/posts about 'Attansic Ubuntu'

Welcome to Linux -- and relax! You'll get it, and we'll help :)

Here's a very quick search I did on LQ here for 'Attansic driver', which surely will have some stuff somewhere to lead you in the right direction!
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...archid=1667510

Also, read here; I get the impression that Attansic driver for L1 device has been added to a/the ubuntu repository for kernel 2.6.20, and/or is available for kernels earlier than that also:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=292838&page=2

Sou's motherboard contains an Attansic L2 ethernet chip, not an L1. The L2 is not supported in the mainline kernel; it'll have to be built as an out-of-tree module.

Sou, given that you're just starting out in the Linux world, you might wish to purchase an inexpensive add-in PCI network card that's fully supported by the kernel. (RTL8169 works, and there are lots of others.) This will probably be the quickest way to get your Ubuntu box on the internet.

Ack, OK. Hopefully the L2 driver will make it into the kernel soon. However, it IS available anyhow, as a module, to download and install. (jcliburn, Haven't I seen your name in the devel threads or LKML for the driver? If so, how's it going? :) )
Unfortunately, while it's a poor way to learn, and even worse for costing money, I hesitantly agree with jcliburn that it *may* be a faster way of getting online for the time being, buying a PCI card..
I hafta repeat though, it's a crappy way to go about getting online and/or learning anything. It's your prerogative, but personally, I'd try installing the driver module. It's my nature, plus I detest spending money, especially on something I already have one of.
:)
Incidentally, many forum threads I have browsed on the subject seem to say that there is a Linux driver for the L2 device on the motherboard driver CD's. Now, I don't know which motherboard makers they refer to, but it'd maybe be worth checking your driver CD again.

Best of luck!

Yes, I'm the maintainer of the atl1 driver. It's going fine; thanks for asking.

I totally agree, and I rarely suggest it. Unfortunately, Sou is an absolute beginner and may not (yet) wish to go to the trouble of installing kernel headers and building a driver with each new kernel released by Ubuntu.

Here's a thread over at Ubuntu forums that deals specifically with the L2. http://http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=429845

Dear Mr./Ms. GrapefruiTgirl,

Thanks for the so quick support. But, how can one update the OS if the LAN card is not detected at all...!!!???

Definitely a conundrum, if you do not have access to another computer connected to the internet, or have Winbloze installed too.
If you are able to use another computer (like where you are typing this post from) you can likely check out the Synaptic/Ubuntu repositories, and download anything you might need to a disk/CD and install it later. You'd really have to check with someone who uses Ubuntu regularly to see how to do this. I would be guessing if I tried to tell you how to do it or where to go, as I barely use Ubuntu at all.
Have you tried browsing jcliburns link provided above, to see what information is there?

I visited the ubuntu website, the ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso you downloaded does not include a live cd and the installation is text based. Since you said, you are a newbie most likely you overseen something when you got to the network configuration
section.

Download the iso again, but this time don't click the checkbox for alternate iso. The iso you want is something like this ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso after you click the start download button.

This includes a live cd and a gui installer. When you run it as a live cd, you can test your network and other devices. If you like it, you can click on the install icon on the desktop.

Got stuck with the Attansic Ethernet Card
 

I have recently installed UBUNTU Operating system.

My Hardware configuration is like this:
1. ASUS Motherboard (P5GC-MX)
2. That Motherboard has onboard ATTANSIC L2 LAN Card.
3. That Motherboard has onboard REALTEK Sound Card
4. Processor = Pentium D
5. Internet Broadband Connection via an ADSL router.
6. I also have a 3rd party Sound Card (Company name = FRONTECH)

My problems:

1. The LAN Card is not detected by UBUNTU. Though the ASUS company has supplied a driver for that LAN Card, it's due to my ignorance, I couldn't figure out how I can install drivers in LINUX. So I sought help of another forum called "UBUNTU Forum", they supplied me with a file named as "atl2.ko" and instructed to move the file to:
[/lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/net/

But when I tried to do it, a warning box came up and said that I didn't have enough permission to write to this folder!!!

So, I took a screenshot and saved it. But I was unable to find that png file from Windows XP. So I can't show you that screenshot. (Sorry for that...)

Please help me regarding this... as my computer is just a scrap without an internet connection....!!! :)

2. The third party Sound card is not detected by UBUNTU.

Please guide me in a right way...

Maybe this thread on the Ubuntu forums could help you: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=attansic I noticed there are attachments with drivers to compile also.

As I searched google (use attansic L@ + linux gets many results) I found yours is not a unique problem. This does happen sometimes with hardware in which the manufacturers do not support Linux as well as others do.

Try the Ubuntu forums though. It seems, from your other posts, that you are using that now.

EDIT: Whoops, I see you have done that. As for the permissions to move the file, you need to use sudo before the move command.

I downloaded the "atl2.ko" driver file. Then I was advised to move that file into the following directory:
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/net/
But when I tried to do so, everytime I was warned with a message that I don't have enough permission to write to that folder!

Please somebody help.....

What I can do...?

And what I want to know is: What is/are REPOSITORIES? How they can be downloaded and installed in UBUNTU OS?

Dear Mr./Ms. DV502,

You are absolutely right. Now I can remeber there were one step during installation which wanted some sort of weird network address (something like this: host:/ user/.......)

I left that blank. My God!!! Will something happen with my hardwares???

You need to preface the move command with sudo. This will get you the required permissions.

The repositories are sites you get updates and programs from when you use aptitude/apt-get/synaptic. When you install ubuntu these should be set for you. You can add more.

See the comments above about the Ubuntu cd. If I were you, I would go back and download the live cd version mentioned above. I think you will be pleased with the interface.

Ubuntu and other popular distros have lots of modules to recognize almost all hardware, and ethernet cards are the most
recognize of all hardwares. But, their are those that simply won't work.

From this thread and others, members gave you tips and try outs to resolved your network card problem and hopefully one of them might work. But if it doesn't, the last option is to get another ethernet card.

If money is tight, you can buy a used network card from amazon or ebay for ten dollars or less.

- Good Luck

You should preface the command with "sudo" (since you're using Ubuntu).

Enter your password when prompted.

I thought a kernel module wouldn't be usable unless it was actually built FOR the kernel running on the machine in question. Further to that, wouldn't the sourcecode to build this module on sou's computer be needed to produce a working module for (his/her) kernel?