How could I know that my stick actually uses the module ath9k_htc
Check output 'lsusb' and 'dmesg' for information about your hardware. dmesg in particular should report what driver your hardware uses.
Also check 'lsmod' for list of all used modules and then 'modinfo $ MODULENAME' to get more information about the driver.
UPDATE: There is also tool 'lshw' https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … 6_64/lshw/ that shows hardware information.
]]>One last short question for bette understanding: How could I know that my stick actually uses the module ath9k_htc and what exactly does the option nohwcrypt=1 do?
]]>What does lspci return when you look at the network cards ? Does it indicate the chipset it uses (I couldn't find it in the datasheet) ? If it does (and it should)[...]
You firstly have to check the output of lspci to know the chipstet of your USB stick (you can grep what you want in the results for more efficiency):
(here is an exemple for an ethernet, same goes for wireless)
# lspci | grep Ethernet
Then you'll see (I hope for you) the chipset specs (mine is a shi*** rtl8192se)
After that you'll need to find a way to output currently loaded kernel modules:
# lsmod | less
Will output something like that:
soundcore 7264 1 snd
ppdev 6688 0
snd_page_alloc 9156 1 snd_pcm
psmouse 56180 0
lp 8964 0
Now you are able to determine wether your driver is loaded or not, if it isn't just install it and run:
# sudo modprobe <your_lil_driver>
For more information on modprobe see here
or for more advanced stuffs:
# man modprobe
EDIT:
Edit: Found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183257 . About to try it. Will report back.
Edit 2: It worked.
That sure is a nice workarournd waiting for the driver to be fixed
]]>Edit: Found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183257 . About to try it. Will report back.
Edit 2: It worked.
]]>Is that your Wireless USB stick? What does lspci return when you look at the network cards ? Does it indicate the chipset it uses (I couldn't find it in the datasheet) ? If it does (and it should), you'll be able to see if the correct driver is installed. Another solution would be that the driver isn't loaded and the stick is only patially supported by a kernel module.
I hope it will be of some help.
]]>I'm using the wlan-stick TP-LINK WL-WN821M and I never had much problems with it using windows. Now I set it up using Arch linux, following the Arch wiki, everything worked out alright and I got it working.
The only problem is: I noticed that the internet speed is really slow. I tested the speed on windown 8 where i got around 14 Mb/s, I tried it on a Debian based distribution where I got around 6.5 Mb/s which is already significantly slower (I still haven't checked which network manager it uses) but on Arch I only got 2.2 Mb/s Download speed which is pretty slow. (For all measurements I used firefox and speedtest.net) The upload speed stayed around the same at 1.3 Mb/s so I assume that the problem is the amount of data coming through between my WLAN-stick and the router.
Have you any advices how I can fix it? Is the problem caused by the different drivers maybe or is it maybe a wrong driver on my Arch?
Thank you very much,
Tomptez