[SOLVED] AtherosAR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver fr red

[aaaaaarko]

I am having a toshiba laptop which have Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller.I needed to install redhat linux server 5.4 in that laptop for my office use.After installing linux the ethernet device was not activated.Can anyone provide me the driver of Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller for redhat linux.

[Rubberman]

Well, the RHEL 5.x kernel has drivers for some of the Atheros wireless cards built in, but I don't see anything about the gigabit cards. Have you looked on the Atheros web site?

[Rubberman]

Ok. I did some searching on their web site for Linux drivers. Here is one for the AR81 family (deprecated), but it was the best I could find.

[aaaaaarko]

Thanx for your suggestion.but when i am going to install the file which u have provided it showing.
[root@localhost src]# make install
Makefile:61: *** Linux kernel source not found. Stop.
[root@localhost src]#



what to do??

[Rubberman]

You need to download the kernel source (available from Red Hat or other RHEL clone sources, such as Scientific Linux, CentOS, etc). You might be able to just install the kernel-devel and kernel-headers packages instead of getting the entire kernel source. So, to install the devel and headers packages, do this as root: yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers

[aaaaaarko]

After installing kernel-devel and kernel-headers i found these problems. Please find the problems underlined


[root@localhost Desktop]# cd
[root@localhost ~]# cd Desktop/
[root@localhost Desktop]# tar -zxvf AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz
./
./atl1e.7
./atl1e.spec
./at_osdep.h
./copying
./dkms.conf
./ldistrib.txt
./Makefile
./pci.updates
./readme
./release_note.txt
./src/
./src/.atl1c_main.c.swo
./src/atl1c.h
./src/atl1c_ethtool.c
./src/atl1c_hw.c
./src/atl1c_hw.h
./src/atl1c_main.c
./src/atl1c_param.c
./src/atl1e.h
./src/atl1e_ethtool.c
./src/atl1e_hw.c
./src/atl1e_hw.h
./src/atl1e_main.c
./src/atl1e_param.c
./src/at_common.h
./src/at_common_main.c
./src/at_osdep.h
./src/kcompat.c
./src/kcompat.h
./src/kcompat_ethtool.c
./src/Makefile
./src/Module.markers
./src/Module.symvers
./src/modules.order

gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[root@localhost Desktop]# cd src/
[root@localhost src]# make install
Makefile:118: *** Compiler not found. Stop.

[aaaaaarko]

Thanx for your suggestion.Finallly i managed to install the driver after installing gcc compiler .