On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Rick Stevens <ri...@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
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