Internet Connection

Ive been having a hard time getting my Aspire one D250 to connect to a hard wire internet connection,,The Wireless works with no problems,,,I installed Crunchbang Linux 9.04 wich is based off of Ubuntu.
I have posted on the CrunchBang site,,But no info has come up yet.

I know its not a hardware issue because when it had XP on it,,It connected with no problems.
I figure its a driver issue but dont know what to do from here.Ive also tried Ubuntu and had the same issues connecting.

Ive tried my DSL connection and a comcast conection and both dont work.

Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.

 

Ive tried to get it connected using Cruncheee wich i had no problem with my aspire 1 8.9 inch ssd model,,,Why is the 250 giving me connection problems.

Any help will be apreciated.

 

The D series Aspire One uses an ethernet NIC with an Atheros chipset, while the A series uses an ethernet NIC with a Realtek chipset. AFAIR #! Linux uses Sickboy's customized kernel, and not the default Jaunty kernel. I'm guessing that Sickboy's kernel hasn't the ethernet NIC driver for the Atheros based NIC included, only the Realtek one. Try to PM him here on the forum, about getting it included.

 

See message above this one.

 

Use the Wicd Network Manager in any Linux distribution, very simple to use and works out of the box.
I have Wicd on Gentoo, works perfect.

 

I guess theres a driver missing,,Its not a connection manager thing,,I wish it was,,Ive downloaded the linux driver,,But have no clue on how to install it,,,I got the info from the Ubuntu forum,,But im haveing zero luck making it work...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7177101&postcount=6

All im getting is errors.

It has instructions in the src file after you extract it,,,But none of the work with the Crunchbang linux that ive got on it now.
wich is based on Ubuntu 9.04.

 

I think the best way is to compile your own kernel. Some drivers may not work if they are compiled as module, they have to bi build in kernel.
You have to enable the driver in kernel configuration file.
Look at the Gentoo wiki
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Acer_Asp ... nel_Config
You can use Genkernel for compiling your own kernel and:
genkernel --menuconfig all
to edit the config file and after editing it will automatically compile it.

It only depands which NIC you have, you can check with:
sudo lscpi

If you have Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller, than compile
Device Drivers --->
[*] Network device support --->
[*] Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->
<*> Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support

If You have Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, then make sure you have selected:
Device Drivers --->
[*] Network device support --->
[*] Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->
<*> Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)

I have only Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on my D150 selected in my kernel configuration, on Gentoo kernel 2.6.29, works perfectly.

 

Thats just way way way over my head,,I was able to install the driver according to Ubuntu,,,,In ifconfig its showing and adress and a mask,,but the connection manager doesnt read my dsl and firefox wont connect,,,,Im sure at wits end trying to get this going,,,,,Im starting to look at other distro`s that just will install and work.

 

... but such distros are very heavy and universal, full of auto installers next -> next ->next ...., something like Vista, I think that OS should be optimized for concrete system and lightweight, otherwise AA1 could not be very usefull.
I suggest you to install Gentoo + LXDE or some other source based distro and LXDE I can share you my working kernel-config, it's not that complicated.

 

Im not very good at compiling things,,,LOL
And without a step by step id be afraid it would take me weeks to install.

How easy is it,,,Your talking a complete Linux beginner when it comes to command line stuff.