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shajhirah

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Registered: 2012-06-22

Posts: 8

Atheros 9285 wireless driver not installing properly [SOLVED]

I'm not sure what the problem is here, and I'm certainly at a loss to try and fix it. I'm trying to get my laptop to recognize my wireless card (ath9k), and according to the Arch Wiki, I should get the latest ath9k driver, which I have, but something's going wrong. Because there are no actual installation instructions, I assumed it was a standard make/make-install build, but when I try that, I get

[****@**** compat-wireless-3.5-rc2-1]$ make
make -C /lib/modules/3.3.8-1-ARCH/build M=/home/****/compat-wireless-3.5-rc2-1 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.3.8-1-ARCH/build: Not a directory.  Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Any research I've done leads me to believe it's a problem with my kernel, which I'm not sure how to update, if that is even the root of the problem at all.

Last edited by shajhirah (2012-06-27 17:46:31)

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Atheros 9285 wireless driver not installing properly [SOLVED]

From the link you gave: 

ath9k has been part of the Linux kernel as of v2.6.27. Support seems acceptable as of kernel v2.6.32

So you don't need to make/make-install a driver.  I'm betting if you did an "lsmod" you'd find out you already have the driver in-place as it's a part of the kernel.  All you should need to do is setup netcfg/networkmanager/other-network-tool-here.

shajhirah

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Registered: 2012-06-22

Posts: 8

Re: Atheros 9285 wireless driver not installing properly [SOLVED]

From the link you gave: ath9k has been part of the Linux kernel as of v2.6.27. Support seems acceptable as of kernel v2.6.32

Ok, must have missed that. Thanks.

All you should need to do is setup netcfg/networkmanager/other-network-tool-here.

EDIT: I updated netcfg, but when I attempt to turn my network on, I get

[****@**** ~]$ sudo netcfg 2WIRE717
:: 2WIRE717 up                                                                                        [BUSY]
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported

 > WPA Authentication/Association Failed

and it disconnects my wired network, making me reboot to get any connectivity at all.

Last edited by shajhirah (2012-06-25 18:34:49)

siamer

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Registered: 2012-04-29

Posts: 132

Re: Atheros 9285 wireless driver not installing properly [SOLVED]

Hi.

I have the same wifi module and my is working out of box... just check iwconfig to confirm that, you should see interface called wlan0 and this is your wireless card...
If you really want use wireless testing kernel than just download the newest version http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat- … -1.tar.bz2
-> unpack it -> login as a root (or use sudo if you prefer) -> make -> make install -> reboot (or unload your wifi module and load again: "rmmod ath9k" and than "modprobe ath9k")...

I think you just mess up something in cofiguration of netconf and there is not problem with wifi modules, just my opinion

how to configure netcfg:
copy /etc/network.d/examples/wireless-wpa-static do /etc/network.d/
than edit /etc/network.d/wireless-wpa-static and change network name and password
than simply start your network by (as a root) "netcfg -u wireless-wpa-static"
and I think your wireless should work...

Regards,
siamer

shajhirah

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Registered: 2012-06-22

Posts: 8

Re: Atheros 9285 wireless driver not installing properly [SOLVED]

http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat- … -1.tar.bz2

This is what gave me the error in the first post of the thread, that download doesn't work for me.

how to configure netcfg:
copy /etc/network.d/examples/wireless-wpa-static do /etc/network.d/
than edit /etc/network.d/wireless-wpa-static and change network name and password
than simply start your network by (as a root) "netcfg -u wireless-wpa-static"
and I think your wireless should work...

I was just using 'wireless-wpa' instead of 'wireless-wpa-static', but I did try to correct that, and put all the proper names and keys into the right file, but I still get an authentication error, and I don't know what the error is coming from. I know the network name and key are correct, and I am using wlan0 and not eth0. Could it be anything else?

EDIT: Problem solved. It was a WEP connection, not WPA.

Last edited by shajhirah (2012-06-26 21:30:35)

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Atheros 9285 wireless driver not installing properly [SOLVED]

Glad you got it working.  Mark as SOLVED please.