Postat i: Uncategorized | Etiketter: 2.6.29, 2.6.30, 2.6.31, agere, et131, et1310, et131x, F11, f12, Fedora, linux
If you like me have a laptop with an Agere ET1310 nic running 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586….you’re out of luck, for now. Or at least were 
I looked everywhere, tried all drivers and patches to no avail. Well, there weren’t that many drivers just the one on Sourceforge but i couldn’t get it working on my brand new F11. Found relevant issue on RH Bugzilla but they claim that the driver on SF was *far* from ready for upstream inclusion into the main kernel tree. So i simply took what was staged in the kernel git repo for 2.6. Modified the makefile a little and hey …it looks like it is working. I am posting this connecting via the driver but like always YMMV…
From the Readme:
“This is a driver for the ET1310 network device. Based on the driver found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x/
Cleaned up immensely by Olaf Hartman <o.hartmann@telovital.com> and Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>”
I put together what you need here.
How to use it:
tar zxvf et131x_staged_2_6_git.tar.gz
cd et131x_staged_2_6_git
make
cp et131x.ko /lib/modules/2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586/kernel/drivers/net
chmod 744 /lib/modules/2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586/kernel/drivers/net/et131x.ko
depmod -a
modprobe et131x
Check success with dmesg…
Writing this just in case it is of use to anyone.
Update: Works with all F11 kernel versions up to and including 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i686.PAE.
Update2: Works with 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE.
Update3: Some problems with driver at really high loads. Kernel oops when i push it and transfer close to 100mbit/s.
After error, module is corrupt in memory and needs to be reloaded.
Nothing you do every day though. 
Update4: Staged 2.6.32 planned for December release will probably contain the et131x driver.
From the “linux kernel monkey log“: “eth131x driver. Alan Cox is working on fixing up the issues in this driver. Hopefully it will get into mergable shape soon.”
Update5: Works with F12.
Update6: Works with all Fedora 11/12 kernels up to and including 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE.
Update7: Driver scheduled for inclusion with 2.6..33. Quote: “et131x – loads of cleanups, more left to do. Good solid progress happening here.”
7 kommentarer än så länge
Lämna en kommentar
Update: Works with 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i686.PAE too.
Kommentar av r4ndom augusti 4, 2009 @ 12:12The link for the driver doesn’t work, can you upload it again or send it me by mail?
Kommentar av Manny september 4, 2009 @ 11:27thx
Hey can you repost your makefile or your source tarball again? I’m having the same problem and want to build your code but I can’t download it.
Kommentar av Jon september 9, 2009 @ 01:35Sorry about that. File was on an old junk server which failed. I’ll fix it soon. Thanks.
Kommentar av r4ndom september 9, 2009 @ 09:36I fixed the server. You should be able to get it now.
Kommentar av r4ndom september 9, 2009 @ 14:09Good luck.
http://superman.is-a-geek.net/et131x_staged_2_6_git.tar.gz
It works for 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64
Kommentar av Vijeta september 13, 2009 @ 22:07Thanks a lot.
It works for 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE
Kommentar av Michael januari 12, 2010 @ 11:09Thank you