Once again, I was overwhelmed with un-availability of drivers for Linux. In recent past I had bought Asus P5QPL-AM motherboards to use with Linux. I tried Ubuntu 9.10 and centOS 5.4 without any luck. Waiting a while, CentOS 5.5 came out and I even tried that. None of the Linux distributions I tried, provided the drivers for it on default install.
Hoping it to be L1 chip, I tried l1-linux-v1.2.40.3.tar.gz driver from Atheros partner site but that didn't work either.
Looks like I needed AR81 series driver (AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz) from here:
http://partner.atheros.com/Download.aspx?id=162
I installed CentOS 5.5 x64 on the hardware, download the AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz and did the following.
Untar(gz) the file AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz
cd AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14/src
Did a make to see if it was compliling ok
It compiled ok so did a make install
Rebooted the machine and all was well
Hope that this helps someone in Linux Domain. :-)
3 comments:
Hi! it seems that tar.gz file on official atheros server is broken.
Tar output:
"gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"
Do you still have a 'normal' archive file on your hdd?
Could you help me, please, and send it via email or put on some filesharing?
thanks in advance
PS: email: pigritor@gmail.com
@pigritor: I have the tar file but I'm not sure if I can distribute it.
I just checked, the driver is still available for download. I noticed that when the package is extracted, it spits some errors but compiling & install has no issues has no issues.
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