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.”
Postat i: Uncategorized | Etiketter: acer aspire one, circular scrolling, fedora 10, linux, netbook, ssd
Vägrar såklart ge några hundralappar till BillG och skaffade en SSD variant med 8.9″ skärm och Linux. Hystade ut den distributionen och petade in Fedora 10 såklart. Lite segt med ssd men t ex vikten på precis under kilot passar perfekt för soffan. För streaming av ljud, video. Å kom igen…1900:- hur i h-e kan man ens tillverka den och frakta den hit för den pengen?
Tanken är att den skall drälla hemma och användas för alla de där triviala datoraktiviteterna såsom kolla mail, surfa lite, kolla på film i sängen och så. Perfekt att ta med på resa också med lite film på sd-kort. Eftersom jag är ett fan av Slimdevices hemma kan jag ju köra SoftSqueeze på den också. Tweakar lite nu. Moddade i en gig minne till. Uj…tungan i rätt mun fick man ha. Kompakt design betydde totalslakt för att komma åt soDimm-sockeln i botten.
