Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2012/12/26 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> 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.
Note that that is a meta-package that installs the kernel specific
package, so you'll need to download at least the kernel specific one
and the meta package is good to make sure that after a kernel upgrade
you still have the drivers.
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
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