Z170A Hardware not supported

[Dungeonseeker]

MSI Z170A Gaming M7 board (Skylake), after install is finished there is no NIC (Killer E2400) support or Sound (Realtek HD unsure of which exactly) working.

Heres the lspci -v
http://pastebin.com/UtBkySFf

uname -a
desktop@steamos:~$ uname -a
Linux steamos 3.10-5-amd64 #1 SMP SteamOS 3.10.60-1+steamos1 (2014-12-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Tele42]

For reference, the audio chipset in question is a Realtek ALC1150. Is there a reason you tried Alchemist over Brewmaster? This is a very new chipset and Alchemist is simply too old to have have a chance of being compatible.

[Dungeonseeker]

I downloaded the latest zip direct from the following -

http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

I thought it wa sstrange others were talking about Kernel 4 while I was running 3. Why don't Valve link to the latest version on their own site?

Any chance of a link to the latest version then please.

edit

Found it, will install it now then update after its finished :)

[Dungeonseeker]

OK, all udated to latest brewmaster beta (now says Version 2.0 Update 1:2.49).

Sound is working fine but I am still unable to connect to the internet by ethernet.

lspci -v - http://pastebin.com/cBsTCHMN

uname -a - Linux steamos 4.1.0-0.steamos.3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.1.6-2+steamos3 (2015-10-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I found this guide for Ubuntu which gives a guide on how to install the E2400, would it still work with SteamOS?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/670347/is-there-any-way-to-install-atheros-e2400-drivers

I am posting this from my Skylake MSI Z170A GAMING M5 build using my Killer E2400 on Ubuntu Gnome! Below are the (more or less) simple steps I used to get it working.

First we'll follow some instructions from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get build-dep linux-image-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install git
git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-vivid.git

That git URL is for 15.04 Vivid Vervet. You would replace vivid with your release codename. That last step can take a little while, so relax and bask in the knowledge that your E2400 will soon be working.

Once that is finished, we'll modify the alx driver to include our E2400 (feel free to use your text editor of choice)

cd ubuntu-vivid/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/
sudo gedit reg.h

Find the line defining ALX_DEV_ID_E2200 (you can just search for E2200), and add this below it

#define ALX_DEV_ID_E2400 0xe0a1

Next,

sudo gedit main.c

Again, find E2200, and after the lines { PCI_VDEVICE(ATTANSIC, ALX_DEV_ID_E2200), .driver_data = ALX_DEV_QUIRK_MSI_INTX_DISABLE_BUG }, add

{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATTANSIC, ALX_DEV_ID_E2400),
.driver_data = ALX_DEV_QUIRK_MSI_INTX_DISABLE_BUG },

Now, all that's left is to make and install the drivers

make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules
sudo make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules_install
sudo modprobe -r alx
sudo depmod
sudo modprobe -v alx

Note: You after executing the last line, you should see the module load from ...extra/alx.ko If you do not, you may need to rename the alx.ko that it did find to alx.ko.bak or something of the sort, and run the last three commands again.

Your E2400 should now appear for your networking enjoyment!

This is a clean install, only thing I have done is added beta repos and debian repos as per this guide-

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814396114274132/

[Tele42]

@Plagman here's the proper patch: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg77021.html
Seeing as the patch was written Sept. 2015, this will most likely automagically work after steamos is using a 4.3 or 4.4 kernel.

[Dungeonseeker]

So is there nothing I can do now except wait it out?

[Dungeonseeker]

@Tele42 I'm gonna go back to Ubuntu and keep an eye on the SteamOS updates section for Brewmaster 2.50 as I just can't live on WiFi, been waiting for 2 days now and Dying Light is still only at 70%.

Thanks for everything you've done, hopefully you guys will get this patched up.

[Tele42]

This should have been addressed with ValveSoftware/steamos_kernel@af203d6.

[johnv-valve]

Should be fixed in brewmaster_beta 2.55 http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/492379439674068368/

[lukaslin]

I had the same problem with this motherboard MSI Z170A with Linux.
I tried to install drivers manually on Linux mint 17.3 (equivalent Ubuntu 14.04).
There is a link :
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/ubuntu/alsa-daily/+packages
I used the Debian package .deb to install.
After reboot sound works well.