But, the device driver - Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 - is not working on Ubuntu.
After the long web searching,
I found the solution of this problem, finally,
* Cause of Problem
- Ubuntu Distribution has no driver for Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200.
- You can get the (alx) driver for this chip in compat-drivers package.
But it is not working, because of non-matching Device ID.
* Solution
1. Ubuntu 12.10 and before
- Follow the operation on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2008332
- You must apply the two patch files.
- compat-patch.txt --> for adding device id
- tty.c.patch.txt --> for fixing the definition of TTY functions
2. Ubuntu 13.04 and after
- Install the compiler tool-chain and the header files of linux kernel
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers
- Download the compat-drivers package
- Extract the tar ball
tar xvjf compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u.tar.bz2
- Fix the codes (Adding Device ID of MSI's)
vim drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_reg.h
--> #define ALX_DEV_ID_AR8172 0x10A0 // add below codes
#define ALX_DEV_ID_MINE 0xe091
vim drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx_main.c
--> ALX_ETHER_DEVICE(ALX_DEV_ID_AR8172), // add below codes
ALX_ETHER_DEVICE(ALX_DEV_ID_MINE),
- Set the target driver [alx] in compat-drivers build tree
./scripts/driver-select alx
- Build the compat-drivers and Install the target kernel module [alx]
sudo make all install
- Load the kernel module of [alx] driver, and Check the network interfaces
sudo modprobe alx
ifconfig
- After rebooting, check the final status
lsmod | grep alx
ifconfig
Thank you so much! I followed all the steps for my MSI GT60 with Ubuntu 13.04, but after rebooting I couldn't make the driver work. Where did you get the device ID from? could mine be different? I am getting this error on linux start: (dmesg)
ReplyDelete[ 13.562717] Qualcomm Atheros(R) AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver
[ 13.562855] alx 0000:02:00.0: unrecognize the chip, aborting
[ 13.562860] alx 0000:02:00.0: net device private data init failed
[ 13.562878] alx 0000:02:00.0: error when probe device, error = -22
[ 13.562884] alx: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -22
Finally I got it working! I was missing a couple of details:
ReplyDelete1- Add cases for ALX_DEV_ID_MINE everywhere ALX_DEV_ID_AR8172 appears.
2- after "sudo make all install", add a "sudo make unload".
yay! I got Ethernet working :D Lots of thanks!