Atheros(R) AR8121/AR8113/AR8114/AR8131/AR8132 PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver Installation on CentOS 5

Hardware information:

1. Motherboard: ASUS P5Q (Intel P45/ICH10R)
2. lspci information:

# lspci -v
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8226

# lspci -vn
02:00.0 0200: 1969:1026 (rev b0)
        Subsystem: 1043:8226

To install ethernet network driver, follow these steps:

1. Download from ELRepo repository kmod-atl1e rpm package.
2. Install the kernel module:
   

   # rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-atl1e-1.0.0.11-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
   

3. Load the kernel module:
   

   # modprobe -v atl1e