Monday, October 10, 2016
Load Atheros GbE AR8161 LAN drivers on CentOS 6 4
Load Atheros GbE AR8161 LAN drivers on CentOS 6 4
Atheros GbE (AR8161) LAN is still not supported on the major Linux distributions which makes it really annoying to fix since most solutions require installing kernel-dev, gcc, perl, and many other dependencies. After a lot of trial and error, I finally found this simple procedure for getting ethernet to work on CentOS 6.4:
1. Download kmod-alx and save it to a thumb drive
2. Insert thumbdrive into CentOS computer, double-click the thumb drive icon on the desktop to mount it, and then open a terminal (Applications > System Tools > Terminal)
3. cd /tmp
4. cp /media/THUMBDRIVE/kmod-alx-0.0-7.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm .
5. sudo rpm -i kmod-alx-0.0-7.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
6. sudo modprobe alx
7. Open Firefox browser and verify you have internet connectivity
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