Hi, the 'Killer Gaming' E2200 is shipped with some new Ivy Bridge notebooks, such as MSI GE60/GE70.
This adapter does not work out of the box. So I googled a bit and here's how to make it work:
http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcg … t-drivers/
get latest (stable) compat-drivers package and extract it.
get latest (stable) compat-drivers package and extract it.
We need the 'alx' (Qualcomm Atheros) driver out of that bunch of drivers in it. Unfortunately, the alx driver does work with the E2200 but doesn't know it yet =P. So we need to apply a little patch from http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php? … 1365935824 which simply adds the 'ALX_DEV_ID_E2200' definition to four places where it's needed.
Move the patch to the folder where you extracted the compat-drivers zip file and
Move the patch to the folder where you extracted the compat-drivers zip file and
Proceed as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … ros_AR8161
'make install' will tell you a bunch of commands, stating 'Now run:' which is misleading because you ought not to run any of these commands. (You MAY if you really need these for anything.)
Instead just do
'make install' will tell you a bunch of commands, stating 'Now run:' which is misleading because you ought not to run any of these commands. (You MAY if you really need these for anything.)
Instead just do
Hi, the 'Killer Gaming' E2200 is shipped with some new Ivy Bridge. Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13).
and check with dmesg that it doesn't just say
which it will solely output if we hadn't applied the patch, but instead it should output more lines confirming the ethernet interface is now available:
Done.
Last edited by Jindur (2013-05-18 21:51:18)