Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, E.S. Rosenberg
<esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
>
> I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me
> to install one more package for wired communication (wireless
> [different chip, also atheros] worked out of the box):
>
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast
> Ethernet (rev 10)
>
> The weird thing was that the driver detection program didn't realize this...
>
> Either way the package that provides the 'alx' driver on Ubuntu 12.10 is:
> linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic
>

Thanks. I'll try to get a copy of the package to try to install
locally if the driver does not work.


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