Bug 47161

Summary:	No drivers for new Atheros AR8162
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	MonetsChemist (clhermansen)
Component:	Network	Assignee:	drivers_network (drivers_network)
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.2.	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description MonetsChemist 2012-09-07 01:27:16 UTC

Several new-ish laptops (eg Dell Inspiron 14Z) use the Atheros AR8162 ethernet chip for their wired networking, and it appears that there is no driver in this kernel version (at least).

There is a driver available at

http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/

I have used compat-wireless-2012-09-01-pc.tar.bz2 with success.

which appears to work fine when compiled and loaded as per instructions.

I initially filed this problem downstream on Launchpad, as

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1046435

which is apparently a duplicate of

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/927782

One of the maintainers suggested I file an upstream bug as well.

Comment 1 Alan 2012-09-07 15:34:27 UTC

Whoever said that was wrong in this case I think. It's up to Ubuntu what backports it ships in its 3.2 kernels