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Atheros Ar9485

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• Started 10 years ago by CronosTs
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   CronosTs
   

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   Hi,

   I have encountered some problems when trying to connect to the internet through my wireless card.To be more precise, the interface wlan0 is not listed by the ifconfig.

   I'm using slitaz 4.0.

   lspci: http://pastebin.com/ctz7bGRM
   lshw: http://pastebin.com/z1zMnfam
   dmesg: http://pastebin.com/RFaqmK5s
   lsmod: http://pastebin.com/vnptbm03
   /var/log/messages: http://pastebin.com/aHCqyhds

   Interfaces listed by: ls /sys/class/net
   dummy0
   eth0
   lo

   The drivers from Atheros 9485 are, AFAIK, in 2.6.32 kernel. So, why can't i connect ?

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   The final release of SliTaz-4.0 is 2.6.37 kernel
   Maybe you have a pre-release 4.0 if uname -a output is 2.6.32 kernel
   ath9k module/driver is loaded,it may be that a newer version of ath9k is needed.
   Install rfkill and verify wifi is not hard or soft blocked.
   $ rfkill list all

   Same wifi chipset failed to work 5 months ago:
   http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/pb-booting-on-a-asus-x201e#post-24129
   http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/no-wlan-with-atheros-ar9485#post-21674

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   CronosTs
   

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   Thanks for your reply. I'll try the recommendations.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   CronosTs
   

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   Bad news... Didn't work... Even with the news drivers, without any compilation error, don't work. And, rfkill list all don't show any block. The ath9k module can be loaded but, don't make any difference. Even var/logmessages don't show any error. I really don't know what to do...

   Any advice ?

   PS: my kernel is 2.6.37.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   If you compile/install the backport versions of ath9k and the ar9485 doesn't work there are no other alternative drivers I'm aware of to try.

   Reference:
   http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
   http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/rel-html/backports/

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   CronosTs
   

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   The files in http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/rel-html/backports/ don't work, even stract... i don't understand... when i used arch linux the wireless had worked... Does the problem is the kernel version?

   Posted 10 years ago #

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