{"id":1069,"date":"2009-03-25T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-03-25T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T06:59:13","slug":"windows-7-beta-atheros-ethernet-driver-works-on-asus-eee-pc-1000ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/windows-7-beta-atheros-ethernet-driver-works-on-asus-eee-pc-1000ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Beta Atheros Ethernet Driver Works on Asus Eee PC 1000HA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/asuseeepc_ethdrv_small.png\" alt=\"asuseeepc_ethdrv_small\" title=\"asuseeepc_ethdrv_small\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/asuseeepc_ethdrv_small.png 420w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/asuseeepc_ethdrv_small-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I discovered that I couldn&#8217;t use the wired Ethernet port on my Asus Eee PC 1000HA running Windows 7 Beta while in Seattle visiting Microsoft earlier this month. This was a problem since the Seattle Sheraton Hotel room I was in didn&#8217;t provide WiFi access &#8211; just wired Ethernet access.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I fired up the Eee PC this evening, Windows 7 Beta had a notification icon telling me that a solution had been found (see screenshot above). So, I downloaded the Atheros AR8131\/AR8132 Ethernet Controller driver that was linked in Microsoft&#8217;s notification page and installed it. Atheros provides the driver in a RAR archive file. So, I had to download and install 7-Zip to unpack it.<\/p>\n<p>I tested wired Ethernet access after installing the driver on the Eee PC 1000HA and everything worked fine.  I wish this driver was available 4 weeks ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered that I couldn&#8217;t use the wired Ethernet port on my Asus Eee PC 1000HA running Windows 7 Beta while in Seattle visiting Microsoft earlier this month. This was a problem since the Seattle Sheraton Hotel room I was in didn&#8217;t provide WiFi access &#8211; just wired Ethernet access. However, when I fired up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[151,150],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-ethernet","tag-windows-7-beta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-hf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}