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fh

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Registered: 2009-07-11

Posts: 31

[SOLVED] Wireless with Atheros 242x card on Sony Vaio

Hello,

I have a Sony Vaio VGN NR110e. My wireless used to work just fine in Ubuntu. So I know there are drivers for linux.

My Internet is working fine using the ethernet cable. Now I want to get my wireless working.  Its able to correctly see my wireless card:

[root@archbox ~]# lspci  | grep Wireless
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

I then installed madwifi, following instructions here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#madwifi

Have tried both ath_pci and ath5k. But no luck.

I'm wondeiring if there's anyonen else who had a similar Atheros card and got it working, and using which driver ...

Faraz.

Last edited by fh (2009-07-12 18:33:00)

fh

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Registered: 2009-07-11

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless with Atheros 242x card on Sony Vaio

Wireless working now.

The driver which worked was ath5k.  (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#madwifi)

Also, networkmanager seems to be working. The University wireless network is what I'm using right now. Followed instructions here (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager).  Thanks, very well written.

Only thing is: I had to start nm-applet manually after starting xfce4. I'll try to put that into .bashrc. If someone knows of a better place to put that into, please let me know. Thanks.

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless with Atheros 242x card on Sony Vaio

In hp dv5 laptop , I got the same wireless chip set and working without any problem.

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)od

lsmod | grep -i ath5

ath5k                 121128  0
mac80211              182880  1 ath5k
led_class               3976  3 hp_accel,sdhci,ath5k
cfg80211               67332  2 ath5k,mac80211

ensure that wireless tools are installed correctly.

fh

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Registered: 2009-07-11

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless with Atheros 242x card on Sony Vaio

In hp dv5 laptop , I got the same wireless chip set and working without any problem.

cfg80211               67332  2 ath5k,mac80211

ensure that wireless tools are installed correctly.

Yes, its working for me now (see post #2). Thanks for your comment.

[faraz@archbox ~]$ lsmod | grep -i ath5
ath5k                 121128  0 
mac80211              182880  1 ath5k
led_class               3976  1 ath5k
cfg80211               67332  2 ath5k,mac80211

Trent

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From: Baltimore, MD (US)

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 990

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless with Atheros 242x card on Sony Vaio

There should be a session manager or something for xfce that lets you start applications on startup.  It's been ages since I used xfce, so I don't know what that might be.  .bashrc is not a good solution even if it works (which seems unlikely).