Dell 2330 All in One Network issue

Andy Morris

I set it to debug mode and it hangs on Starting Network…
Andy

chad-bisd

can you tell us what NIC chipset it’s using?

Andy Morris

On the PXE boot it says Atheros PCIE v2.1.0.9…

In the Bios it says Atheros Boot Agent

In Windows it says Atheros AR8161/8165

Andy

astrouga

Ah, well that one doesn’t appear to be supported in 3.4. It looks like 3.5 has some Atheros support. Try this:

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astrouga

Andy Morris

Okay, tried that and still does not work. Tried hardware inventory, blank screen after attempting to register. Tried Debug and stops at starting networking, has command prompt and does not have eth0 in the config just loopback adapter…

Any other thoughts?
Thanks for all your help so far.

Andy

astrouga

If I get a chance I’ll try to add the AR8161 driver to the kernel and rebuild it. I won’t get a chance to look at it again for an hour or so though.

astrouga

Andy Morris

Fantastic…!! I will be waiting your post.
Thanks a lot!!

Andy

danielcssl

What a coincidence, I started work to image some of these myself last night. I’m having the same exact results as Andy and would love a kernel with support for this NIC.

danielcssl

Any new developments on this? I have about 30x Dell 2330 PCs to image, I’m more than happy to help test out different kernels.
I helped quite a bit with testing and identifying kinks to iron out in the FOG location patch, though I’ve never added individual drivers to a kernel before. Loading one made by others should be a snap.

Andy Morris

Nothing new to report, astrouga is working on inserting the Atheros NIC driver to the kernel and I am waiting on his input.

Just wondering, were you able to get Dell to sell you a mass quantity of the 2330? We have to buy the Optiplex AIO 9010 at a higher cost…bummer. Like the price for the 2330…

Andy

chad-bisd

A quick search of the web shows little hope for the Atheros AR8161/8165 being supported in any version of Linux at this time. I’ve been to the OpenSUSE and Fedora forums and neither of them have support for the device.

You’ll have to wait for someone to create/modify a device driver module. If you just have to get this done, you might try a USB to ethernet adapter. I have a kernel that supports the Asix AX88772B.

Andy Morris

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 5568, member: 18”]A quick search of the web shows little hope for the Atheros AR8161/8165 being supported in any version of Linux at this time. I’ve been to the OpenSUSE and Fedora forums and neither of them have support for the device.

You’ll have to wait for someone to create/modify a device driver module. If you just have to get this done, you might try a USB to ethernet adapter. I have a kernel that supports the Asix AX88772B.[/quote]

Okay, i may try a USB adapter but i am hopeful that we may get a kernel working. Also hope that the Optiplex version may have an older NIC driver…

Andy

Conor

hey guys there was a similar thread on the 3360 which has the same chipset. I resorted to ghostcasting but after doing 8 successfully its not working any more.

Would love if there was some way to get a kernel for this sorted, we would make a donation to anybody who did!

Andy Morris

So while we are waiting for the kernel to be patched/ updated, my boss, bought four of the Optiplex 9010 All-in-One models. We got them down to $800 which is a great deal since they were 1300. Anyway Fog works with these!!! This is fantastic news and we will begin to roll these out as our base models for our teachers. The look is great, less cords, and large 23" inch screen is just nice on the eyes. Still look forward to the new kernel and whatever else Fog has to offer down the line.

chad-bisd

There is beta support for the atheros card ar8161/8165. Link to how to add it to kernel is in 3360 thread.

chad-bisd

I can’t seem to find my other reply, so here you go [url]http://askubuntu.com/questions/165192/how-do-i-install-drivers-for-the-atheros-ar8161-ethernet-controller[/url]

DaveO

We were having issues with new laptops that use the Atheros 8161 Ethernet controller so we have compiled the compat-drivers (alx) with Kernel version 3.5.4-kitchensink. Here is a link to the download for anyone that needs it: [URL=‘http://davidouwinga.com/bzImage.zip’]http://www.davidouwinga.com/bzImage.zip[/URL]
You will need to extract the zip file and move the bzImage file to /tftpboot/fog/kernel/ as root

Bradley Lindquist

THANK YOU! You saved my summer.

kingofl337

Does anyone know how DaveO incorporated the 8161 driver into the kernel? I’d like to learn how for future use.

All the examples I’ve found are to build a module, instead of incorporating it into the kernel image.

DaveO

[quote=“kingofl337, post: 12809, member: 6032”]Does anyone know how DaveO incorporated the 8161 driver into the kernel? I’d like to learn how for future use.

All the examples I’ve found are to build a module, instead of incorporating it into the kernel image.[/quote]

Found some notes on how we did it. I will just paste them here. It has been a long time since this was done so hopefully these still help. Looks like you will need to find a new location to download the add-alx-next-20120228 patch.