[SOLVED] Driver Attansic technology L1 Gigabit Ethernet

[harvarinder]

Hi,

I am using CentOS 5.2 and looking for the drivers for Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

uname -rmi

2.6.18-92.el5PAE i686 i386

Please let me know if further information is required. I need the drivers for my network card.

Thank you.
Harvey.

[AlanBartlett]

The driver is available as a kernel independent, kABI tracking, [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-atl1]kmod-atl1[/url] package from the [url=//elrepo.org]ELRepo Project[/url].

From the information you have provided, you will require the [b]kmod-atl1-PAE-1.2.40.3-3.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm[/b] package which can be downloaded from the following location:

[url=http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS/]http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS/[/url].

To be absolutely sure, please check for the [i]Vendor:Device ID Pairing[/i] (the [i]fingerprint[/i]) of your NIC on the [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs]Device IDs[/url] page. See [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ]FAQ #4[/url] for guidance.

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I am using CentOS 5.2
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Please note that usage of a deprecated point release is unsupported. The current version (as of the date of this post) is [b]5.4[/b] and the release of [b]5.5[/b] is imminent.

It would be in your own interest, once you have that system connected to the Internet, to read the [url=http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4]CentOS 5.4 Release Notes[/url] and update your system, taking note of the end of Section #4 to avoid any potential [i]glibc[/i] problems.

[harvarinder]

Hi AlanBartlett,

Thank you very much for the great support.

The driver worked for me.

I will update the linux version to 5.4

I tried downloading the latest ISO from the following link http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/centos/5.4/isos/i386/ (CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.iso)

Its size on the link is 3.7G but when downloaded it is just 1.99 GB (2,147,417,640 bytes). It was extracted by me after download and then burnt on a DVD, but it never acted as a bootable disk.

-- Harvey.

[AlanBartlett]

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The driver worked for me.
[/quote]
Thank you for reporting back with the good news.

To update your system, you do not need to download any ISO image and, thus, burn it to disk or attempt to boot it. :roll:

You just need to follow the advice as shown at the end of Section #4 of the [url=http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08]CentOS 5.4 Release Notes[/url] --

[code]
[b]yum clean all
yum update glibc\*
yum update yum\* rpm\* python\*
yum clean all
yum update
shutdown -r now[/b]
[/code]
A (no more than) five minute job. ;-)

[harvarinder]

Excellent, the steps worked for me and I was able to update.

I did the following to resolve some issues that I was getting while running the steps.

Opened Add/Remove Software and made sure that under repository following are ticked:

addons
base
updates


Thank you for the support.

Regards,
Harvey.

[AlanBartlett]

Thanks for reporting back with your good news.

For posterity, this thread is now marked as [SOLVED].