LAN driver problem

Mikkel L. Ellertson mellertson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 18:12:53 UTC 2013


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On 09/11/2013 09:29 AM, Giovanni Ortosecco wrote:
> Dear List,
> first of all I wish to greet all members.
> My name is Giovanni and I'm a chemist in Naples, Italy.
>
> The problem I found is as follows: at work I use Fedora 10 and a
few days ago I changed the motherboard because the old one is
broken. With the new motherboard LAN connection to the network has
stopped working.
> The new motherboard is as follows:
> http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3505 # sp
>
> and as a controller LAN has, as you can see, the Atheros AR8151
chip (10/100/1000 Mbit).
>
> I saw on the net that there were many problems with this AR8151 chip.
> I also tried to download the latest drivers and install them, but
nothing to do. I only found drivers for Atheros different versions
of the chip, but not for AR8151
>
> Unfortunately I am forced to not being able to upgrade the
operating system to the new Fedora 19.
>
> I also tried to live to start both Fedora 19 and Ubuntu 13.04 and
the LAN is working properly. So I think it is intended solely as a
driver problem.
>
> Thank you in advance for the help you want to give me.
> Greetings to all,
>
> Friendliness.
>
When you changed the motherboard, the network device named probably
changed with it. This is because Fedora remembers the hardware
associated with the device name. You may want to report back the
results of running:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

It will show you what network interfaces the system knows about.

Mikkel
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