[SOLVED] CentOS on HP H8-1455 H4A25AA#ABA

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[SOLVED] CentOS on HP H8-1455 H4A25AA#ABA

Post by bislinkscom » 2014/02/24 14:14:42

I managed to install Centos 6.5 64bit along side Windows 8.1 on this machine.

Much to my surprize, I found that the NIC is not recognized.

The network card is Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30)

Any help, please....

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Re: CentOS on HP H8-1455 H4A25AA#ABA

Post by TrevorH » 2014/02/24 14:39:23

ELRepo have drivers for the Atheros chips. Take the output of `lspci -nn` and head to http://elrepo.org and follow their instructions to find the correct driver for your device. You'll need to download it and carry it via usb stick or something...
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: CentOS on HP H8-1455 H4A25AA#ABA

Post by bislinkscom » 2014/02/24 16:32:51

TrevorH wrote:ELRepo have drivers for the Atheros chips. Take the output of `lspci -nn` and head to http://elrepo.org and follow their instructions to find the correct driver for your device. You'll need to download it and carry it via usb stick or something...
Got into kernel panic after installing kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

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Re: CentOS on HP H8-1455 H4A25AA#ABA

Post by NedSlider » 2014/02/24 18:51:01

bislinkscom wrote:
TrevorH wrote:ELRepo have drivers for the Atheros chips. Take the output of `lspci -nn` and head to http://elrepo.org and follow their instructions to find the correct driver for your device. You'll need to download it and carry it via usb stick or something...
Got into kernel panic after installing kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
Why did you install such an old version?

Please install the latest version of the driver:

http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_ ... x86_64.rpm

which should work fine with 6.5

Thanks

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Re: CentOS on HP H8-1455 H4A25AA#ABA

Post by bislinkscom » 2014/02/25 22:41:47

Yeah, I didn't realize until I encountered the kernel panic.

Anyway, I re-installed 6.5 on this machine, and successfully set up the network using the latest driver.

Thank you very much.

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