installing network card problem

[black_knight_87]

I am using CentOS and i have a problem in installing the network card
my network card is Atheros Lan Interface AR8132

the problem is that i need the driver for it and i cant find... please can anyone help me in finding the driver...

thanx in advance

[reed9]

ELRepo : kmod-atl1c

Download if you're using 32-bit
Index of /linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS

Download if you're using 64-bit
Index of /linux/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS

[black_knight_87]

thank you very much reed9 for your help but I have another question if you dont mind..... ??

I am using 64-bits so i checked the second link, but I`m very new to Linux, can you please tell me how can i use all that rpm files listed in the site???

maybe there is a command I need to use, right?
I need more help please??

Thank you again

[reed9]

I've never used CentOS or other enterprise system, so I'm not too familiar, but...

This link should be the driver you want.
http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/x...epo.x86_64.rpm

Download to a flash drive and transfer over to your machine. (Or do you have a working wireless connection?)

Place the file into your home folder and install with

su -c 'rpm -ivh ~/kmod-atl1c-1.0.0.11-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm'

By the way, is there a particular reason you chose an enterprise distro over a more user friendly desktop oriented distro? CentOS, RHEL, and such use much older (though in theory therefore more stable) software, but this means hardware support, especially for newer hardware, isn't as good as you would find in the latest desktop distros.