Acer - Aspire one happy - Netbook - Driver for Atheros Fast ethernet - Ubuntu driver

Re: Wired ethernet not getting detected  in Acer - Aspire one happy Netbook

Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails, someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands (the first two commands require that you either have an Internet connection, or have your Ubuntu installation CD enabled as a software repository):

Code: 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential 

cd ~/Desktop tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

cd compat-wireless* 

scripts/driver-select atl1c

make 

sudo make install 

Then reboot. 

Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run: Code: sudo modprobe atl1c to insert the driver. Let me know how it goes. We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.

Thanks to :
 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9449490