On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
On 09/06/2012 07:28 AM, Stowell Davison uttered this comment:
>
> I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine
> has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec
> sheet, that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".
>
Atheros stuff is normally wi-fi, not wired. I'm not saying it isn't the
hardwire port but it wouldn't be common.
There is also a wifi port; and that seems to be working -- If I click the
connection icon I see a list of the various available wifi hotspots in the
neighborhood. But I think the AR8161L is a wired device (and there is
_some_ wired device there -- I mean, there's an RJ-45 jack through which
Windows was getting to the internet). The entry on the motherboard spec
sheet says:
Network
LAN: 1000-Base-T
Interface: Integrated into motherboard
Technology: Atheros AR8161L
Data transfer speeds: up to 10/100/1000 Mb/s
Transmission standards: 1000-Base-T Ethernet
Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and
> /var/log/messages contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful
> substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-**scripts.
>
In F17, unless you did an upgrade from a previous release and told udev
to keep the old name, the port will be named something based on the bus
and device IDs, like "p4p1" or "em1" or something. Try "ifconfig
-a" as
the root user to see if the device is actually showing up.
ifconfig -a shows two devices: lo and wlan0.
Stowe Davison