AR8151 Driver INSTALLED
After a lot of try-errors, I've been able to install driver for Atheros AR8151, under 2.6.32.6 kernel, following these steps:
My Board is an ASUS P5G41T-MLX
1.-Find AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz file (google). I can not find what link I used, but in case you do not find it, drop me a line and I will send it (it is only 175KB)
2.-Install Kernel headers & build-essentials
3.- Decompress and make , and modprobe.
As it was my first driver install, will write step by step what I did:
[See last line of the post, as it would be almost essential to have an ethernet card to perform these steps]
aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade
REBOOT
proxmox:~# uname -r
2.6.32-6-pve
>>>>>>> Find headers for my kernel
proxmox:~# apt-cache search pve-headers*
pve-headers-2.6.35-1-pve - The Proxmox PVE Kernel Headers
pve-headers-2.6.32-6-pve - The Proxmox PVE Kernel Headers
....................... more
proxmox:~# apt-get install pve-headers-2.6.32-6-pve
Reading package lists... Done
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Installed
proxmox:~# apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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INSTALLED
>>>>>>>>Copy file to /usr/tmp/AR81
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81# ls
AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz
>>>>then untar
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81# tar zxvf AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz
./
./atl1e.7
./atl1e.spec
./at_osdep.h
./copying
./dkms.conf
./ldistrib.txt
./Makefile
./pci.updates
./readme
./release_note.txt
./src/
./src/.atl1c_main.c.swo
./src/atl1c.h
./src/atl1c_ethtool.c
./src/atl1c_hw.c
./src/atl1c_hw.h
./src/atl1c_main.c
./src/atl1c_param.c
./src/atl1e.h
./src/atl1e_ethtool.c
./src/atl1e_hw.c
./src/atl1e_hw.h
./src/atl1e_main.c
./src/atl1e_param.c
./src/at_common.h
./src/at_common_main.c
./src/at_osdep.h
./src/kcompat.c
./src/kcompat.h
./src/kcompat_ethtool.c
./src/Makefile
gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
./src/Module.markers
./src/Module.symvers
./src/modules.order
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81#
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81# cd src
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81/src# make clean
rm -rf atl1e.ko atl1e.o atl1e.mod.c atl1e.mod.o at_common_main.o atl1e_main.o atl1c_main.o atl1c_hw.o atl1e_hw.o atl1e_param.o atl1c_param.o atl1e_ethtool.o atl1c_ethtool.o kcompat.o atl1e.7.gz .*cmd .tmp_versions
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81/src# make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-6-pve/build SUBDIRS=/usr/tmp/AR81/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-6-pve'
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/at_common_main.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1e_main.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1c_main.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1c_hw.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1e_hw.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1e_param.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1c_param.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1e_ethtool.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1c_ethtool.o
CC [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/kcompat.o
LD [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1e.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1e.mod.o
LD [M] /usr/tmp/AR81/src/atl1e.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-6-pve'
gzip -c ../atl1e.7 > atl1e.7.gz
# remove all old versions of the driver
find /lib/modules/2.6.32-6-pve -name atl1e.ko -exec rm -f {} \; || true
find /lib/modules/2.6.32-6-pve -name atl1e.ko.gz -exec rm -f {} \; || true
install -D -m 644 atl1e.ko /lib/modules/2.6.32-6-pve/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
/sbin/depmod -a || true
install -D -m 644 atl1e.7.gz /usr/share/man/man7/atl1e.7.gz
man -c -P'cat > /dev/null' atl1e || true
man:
cannot write to /var/cache/man/cat7/atl1e.7.gz in catman mode
atl1e.
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81/src#
If make ends correctly you will have a new file on src:
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81/src# ls *.ko
atl1e.ko
proxmox:/usr/tmp/AR81/src#
it is also copied to /lib/modules/2.6.32-6-pve/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
so cd there and
proxmox:/lib/modules/2.6.32-6-pve/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e# modprobe atl1e
gives NO error
# ifconfig -a shows new device, in my case eth1, as I first plugged an old RTL8139 card to be able to connect to internet and ssh to proxmox.
If fact, this should be the first thing to do, to allow performing all these operations.
Hope this can help to others....
Regards
Vicente
thank you very much, now i have a eth1