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Square

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

ath5k extremely quirky

For some strange reason, my wireless device requires me to take the following steps before I get a connection:

modprobe -r ath5k
modprobe ath5k
iw wlp7s0 connect my_essid key 0:xxxxxxxxxx
dhcpcd wlp7s0

or

modprobe -r ath5k
modprobe ath5k
iwconfig wlp7s0 essid my_essid key xxxxxxxxx
iwconfig wlp7s0 essid my_essid
dhcpcd wlp7s0

If I don't follow these specific steps dhcpcd just times out. If I enter the key without the ssid then I can no longer change the ssid that I'm trying to connect to... It's just being quirky as hell.

I'm using a netgear pci-card, lspci:

07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Any ideas?

Last edited by Square (2013-08-16 13:52:23)

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Pse

Member

Registered: 2008-03-15

Posts: 413

Re: ath5k extremely quirky

Sorry for not providing any pointers regarding your problem, but FWIW in my experience ath5k has always been a bit quirky. I may have had bad luck with the chipset I was running. I finally decided to get rid of that card and find one that ran with ath9k.