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The Mishanator

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From: Washington (state)

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 54

asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

I followed the instructions on the wiki but i still can't connect with wireless, the module i load is ath5k

the network adapter: Atheros Communcations Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
i'm not sure how to do this... the archwiki page on my model of asus eee says that wireless works "out of the box"

thanks.

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

It works out of the box for me and it uses ath9k (not ath5k) module.

The Mishanator

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From: Washington (state)

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 54

Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

strange, i tried ath9k too but it doesnt work.

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

My wife's running the same netbook and wifi worked out of the box.

are you using a custom kernel?
how are you trying to connect?  (networkmanager, wicd, command line, etc)
are you manually loading the atheros module through rc.conf?

The Mishanator

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From: Washington (state)

Registered: 2009-09-08

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

the kernel is not custom.
i did modprobe ath9k then in rc.conf all i did was add wlan0 as the network device.

ctarwater

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

what does ifconfig give you?

The Mishanator

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From: Washington (state)

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

ifconfig: wlan0 linke encap:Ethernet HWaddr blahblahblah
            up broadcast multicast myu: metric:1
etc, no inet addr though.

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

ok, how are you trying to connect? 

are you using a gui or the command line?

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

dhcp or static

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

here's what I would try (as root/sudo)

iwconfig essid wlan0 "NAME-OF-WIRELESS-NETWORK"
dhcpd wlan0

that should hopefully work but will at least give you an error if it doesn't.
iwconfig should show you connected to the ssid you defined with an assigned ip.

The Mishanator

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From: Washington (state)

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 54

Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

i get "iwconfig: unkown command wlan0
and
dhcpd command not found.

am i just being stupid?

Telkkar

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From: United States

Registered: 2010-12-26

Posts: 38

Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

Try

iwconfig wlan0 essid "NAME OF WIRELESS NETWORK"
iwconfig wlan0 commit
dhcpcd wlan0 (or dhcpd wlan0, I have to use dhcpcd for some reason)

99% sure you have to name the interface before the command in iwconfing.

EDIT: Repeating myself.....

Last edited by Telkkar (2010-12-27 23:45:51)

The Mishanator

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From: Washington (state)

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 54

Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

okay that works but when i do iwconfig wlan0 commit, i get this:
Error for wireless request "commit changes" : Set failed on device wlan0; operation not supported.

also dhcpcd just times out

this is commandline since i can't actually get a DE or anything without internet.

Telkkar

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From: United States

Registered: 2010-12-26

Posts: 38

Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

Here's probably a question we should have asked you at the beginning: is it an open network or is it encrypted?

The Mishanator

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From: Washington (state)

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

encrypted.

Telkkar

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Re: asus eee pc 1005ha wireless

That changes things a bit then.

Use this to help you, it should work:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nual_Setup

Go down to Step3 and follow whichever encryption you have.