Solved! Many thanks. Details below...
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6 September 2012 15:28, Stowell Davison <swdavison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has
> an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet,
> that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".
>
> Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and
> /var/log/messages contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful
> substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>
> I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network
> connections from the machine using MS Windows.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Stowe Davison
> http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison
>
This appears to need the alx driver:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx
Solved!
Many thanks, Ian. The alx driver from the URL you provided above did the job. There are installation instructions there on the web site. There were a couple of glitches in the "make" because I lacked some necessary packages for the build, but the error messages were clear. The HP h8-1320t is now communicating on its ethernet port.
Thanks again to all who responded.
Stowe Davison
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