Monday, November 11, 2013

How to install Atheros Wired LAN (ethernet) drivers in Fedora 19

On a *fresh* install of Fedora 19:
Step 1: From a computer having access to internet, download the following packages from pkgs.org:
cpp-4.8.1-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
gcc-4.8.1-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
gcc-c++-4.8.1-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
glibc-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64.rpm
libmpc-1.0.1-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
libstdc++-devel-4.8.1-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-5.16.3-264.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-Carp-1.26-243.fc19.noarch.rpm
perl-Encode-2.51-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-Filter-1.49-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-libs-5.16.3-264.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-macros-5.16.3-264.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-PathTools-3.40-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-264.fc19.noarch.rpm
perl-Pod-Simple-3.20-264.fc19.noarch.rpm
perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.27-246.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-Socket-2.009-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-threads-1.87-1.fc19.x86_64.rpm
perl-threads-shared-1.43-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm

Step 2: Copy them to the machine and run the command:
# yum install *.rpm

Step 3: Download compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u.tar.bz2 then run the commands:
# tar -xf compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u.tar.bz2
# cd compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u
# ./scripts/driver-select alx && make && make install
# reboot

Note: If the above link(s) don't work, then use my mirror:
1: RPM packages
2: compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u.tar.bz2