I am attempting to install R8 to a M5A78L-M LX3 motherboard and perform an upgrade from my R7.4 system to it. Unfortunately, when I install from R8 disk (dated 11-09-13) and it tries to setup the network, there are no cards listed. I found that the driver for the card was not included with earlier versions of Arch and there is a workaround:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne ... ros_AR8161

Unfortunately many of the requirements to install the driver are not included in LinHES installation (like make) and in trying to install them manually, I eventually botched the system. I do not have any PCI network cards and I do have a USB linksys wireless card that is probably 10+ years old, which is detected, but I cannot seem to get to connect. So I am kind of in a catch 22 looking for advice on how to get the proper driver installed so that I can download anything else using Pacman. I am also using an HDHR prime, so I will be unable to record anything without a network connection!

Any help/guidance is appreciated. I will probably be plugging away at this for a while...

I'm no expert on the Atheros 8161. I think it's combo ethernet + bluetooth controller. It is suported by alx driver

R8
uname -r
3.6.7-1-Arch

Seems like Kernel 3.8 works fine

Well, I think I have made some solid progress. I found the packages I needed offline in the /data/storage/disk0/pacman/pkg folder, copied the source onto a flash drive for the ethernet driver and built it and installed. Then it was just trying to get the ip address switched off of DHCP since the backend was wigging out and I also had to update the nvidia driver after switching audio to HDMI and delete my HDHomerun tuners and re-add them. Plenty of work yet to do getting my other files across, but I can close the book on this one now.

Just to close the book on this in the event that anybody else runs into this issue, the sequence of events I followed were to:
1) Install LinHES R8 - my only choice was to install with no network connection, because none was detected.

2) Use a separate PC to download the file in the directions on the following link and copy to the LinHES box with a USB flash drive:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne ... ros_AR8161

Which are:

3) Make was not already installed, and I could not install it from the repos (no network connectivity). So I found that the packages were already copied to the hard drive in this folder:
/data/storage/disk0/pacman/pkg
and could be installed as follows: There are some additional packages that are required, but they should all be there. Once the alx driver is made and installed, I still had to reboot. Upon rebooting, I think it either had a random static, or dynamic IP address. Since I was upgrading, my database was looking for a backend IP address of 192.168.1.202. So to change my IP address (temporarily) to that so that I could start the backend, I had to use and then start mythbackend, open mythfrontend and change the Network configuration under LinHES settings to save the IP address permanently.

So far in a week and a half I have not had any Ethernet issues and I use a HDHomerun prime for my tuner so I rely on the networking pretty heavily. Hopefully somebody else will find this brief guide useful in the event of a motherboard with similar hardware.

Hmm... any chance you can create a PKGBUILD for this driver so other users can build their own? Also, does R8 not come with base-devel installed?

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I have been struggling tonight to create the PKGBUILD file. Whenever I attempted a makepkg, it would ultimately end with an error. I was just using the PKGBUILD.proto file and I thought that it would be straightforward, but I don't think I've ever had to create a PKGBUILD file before. Here are the contents of my current file, which is erroring:



And yes, it looks like base-devel was already installed out of the box.