Re: re Laptop Does Not See eth0

Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Robby Workman wrote:
> 
> > Re the SlackBuild script, there's no magic involved in it, nor does
> > it do your kernel config for you.  The best thing for you to do (if
> > you are running 13.37 and only want/need a newer kernel) is to go
> > here and grab the config you want:
> >  http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-current/source/k/
> 
>    Thank you, Robbie.
> 
>    Let me recap. I bought my friend a Sony Vaio (build date of
> November 2011) that uses the Atheros Communications Device 1083
> (rev0) Ethernet controller. The default 13.37 kernel (2.6.37.6) does
> not support this controller. 


Are you sure about this?  Poking around in the kernel source of
2.6.37.5 I have lying around, it looks like that device is supported by
the atl1c driver.  What happens if you just modprobe that? Look at
dmesg to see what the driver says.


Regards,
Laurence