Bug 760097

Summary:	Atheros AR8151 ethernet not detecting in RHEL6.0
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	satheeshkumar <infosatheesh2020>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.0	CC:	bzeranski, infosatheesh2020, Jes.Sorensen
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description satheeshkumar 2011-12-05 12:25:05 UTC

Description of problem:
my ethernet is Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20).
It is not detecting in linux by default, and i am not able to find the suitable driver for my PCI for linux. (using sony vaio-vpccb15fg)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.0

How reproducible:
Installing redhat 6.0_x64 in PC with drivers Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20).


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Installing redhat 6.0_x64 in PC with drivers Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20).
2. by default eth0 not detecting, if added manaully in ifcfg-eth0, getting error as "device does not seem to be present, delaying initialization"
3.
  
Actual results:
ethernet not detecting

Expected results:
ethernet should be able to configure

Additional info:

Comment 2 Jes Sorensen 2011-12-07 10:55:15 UTC

RHEL doesn't support NDIS drivers

Comment 3 satheeshkumar 2011-12-08 14:42:54 UTC

Hi Jes,

Will this be included in further releases of RedHat to support Atheros NDIS type drivers, because nowadays many PC vendors(like Sony) are using these ethernet.

Thanks.

Comment 4 Jes Sorensen 2011-12-14 15:57:52 UTC

Hello Satheesh,

RHEL will not support NDIS drivers at any point. Native drivers for various
chips such as the Atheros ones may arrive when we next resync with upstream,
ie. in RHEL7.

For further details or if you wish to request support for specific drivers,
you need to contact your RHEL customer support contact.

Thanks,
Jes