How to get my Atheros wireless to work...drivers, setup etc...

rg_arc · 2011-03-20 05:07:43

So when I type in "lspci" into my terminal I see that my wireless network controller is:

Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

I looked at the wiki to find out where to go from there to use wireless internet. I think I know which driver to use, I believe its ath9k? I am stuck here because I don't know how I can install this driver. The wiki for that driver asks me to enable mac80211 in the kernel configuration... I can't figure out what to do here.. and I am not sure if its really the right driver anyways..Here is the link for that driver

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k

mcmillan · 2011-03-20 05:36:25

The ath9k driver is already compiled into the standard kernel, so you shouln't need to install anything extra. What happens when you type

rg_arc · 2011-03-20 08:25:55

What happens when I type what?

tomk · 2011-03-20 08:50:51

Everything you need is provided by the kernel Read the Wireless wiki page for info on how to configure it.

rg_arc · 2011-03-20 10:00:41

Well I have been reading it... and I can't seem to get past this one portion of the setup. It seems that something isn't working and I have been trying to trouble shoot this whole but I can't seem to figure out what the problem is yet

lives2evil · 2011-03-20 10:23:50

Have you tried this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nual_setup
And what part isn't working? can you be more specific?
Try running "ifconfig" to see whether your wireless card is there.

rg_arc · 2011-03-20 17:07:48

Yes I have tried this, I tried to do these set of commands and each of those don't work. I put in this code:

ifconfig wlan0 up

and my wireless LED came on... but thats about it

tomk · 2011-03-20 22:12:27

Saying "those don't work" is just not good enough Post the commands you entered and the responses to them.

rg_arc · 2011-03-20 23:06:55

Well... they didn't work because apparently I needed to use the AUR to find a certain package to finish the installation. I had a friend help me troubleshoot... It recognized my card and the driver was (as mcmillan mentioned) available. The only problem I had was getting a certain command to work... I believe rmmod (DRIVER NAME).

cesura · 2011-03-21 03:06:37

rg_arc wrote:

The only problem I had was getting a certain command to work... I believe rmmod (DRIVER NAME).

How did it not work? Did it kidnap your dog? Did it just not seem to work as intended or was it throwing nasty output back at you?

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How to get my Atheros wireless to work...drivers, setup etc...

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