Wireless on EeePC 1015CX

akisha · 2013-08-17 16:58:37

Hello there. After the experience with other distributions I decided to try Arch Linux via VirtualBox. Everything works exactly as it should except wireless. I haven't found anywhere article for the series EeePC 1011/15CX (not very popular). Older models require only wireless_tools and netcf for the proper working of wireless, but none of the additionally installed packages helped with the Eee PC 1015CX. Can you help me?
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) (ath9k module)

Trilby · 2013-08-17 17:13:35

I've never ran arch in virtualbox, but from what I understand, virtualbox provides a "virtual" lan connection. Does the host system have wireless access? If so, just connect in the arch-guest system as if you were connecting via ethernet.

akisha · 2013-08-17 18:09:50

Before VirtualBox, I installed Arch on disk and the same problem (+ system was only readable), so I try if it works via VirtualBox. I want Arch Linux as single system in the laptop again and I haven't always the ability to ethernet connection.

Trilby · 2013-08-17 18:26:06

??

You don't need an ethernet connection. If the host system has a wireless connection, then the arch guest system will see it as a lan connection and you will connect to it *as if it was* an ethernet connection, even though it is not.

Lets go step by step:
- what is the host os?
- does the wireless internet on the host os work?

akisha · 2013-08-20 08:12:58

Host OS is Fedora Linux and here wireless works after starndard installation. Via VirtualBox wireless on Arch Linux really works, but in the near future I will install Arch without VirtualBox and there may be a problem. It just does not find the wireless interface. lsmod does not write any wireless module.
Here's the kernel-netbook and kernel-eee, but kernel-netbook is for other EeePC with any hardware and kernel-eee I don't know, but I fear that it will be the same.

Trilby · 2013-08-20 12:23:27

So you are not posting because there is a problem, but because you are worried that in the near future there may be a problem?

What does that worry stem from? If your wireless hardware works with Fedora, I'd be confident that it would with Arch as well.

akisha · 2013-08-20 13:31:20

So when I completely finish installing Arch, wireless will work?
I'm trying to set up wireless as instructed on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Wireless
but output is still nothing, No such interface: wlp2s0 or iw dev: nl80211 not found., etc. Fedora sees this interface.

Trilby · 2013-08-20 14:51:13

Trilby wrote:

virtualbox provides a "virtual" lan connection. Does the host system have wireless access? If so, just connect in the arch-guest system as if you were connecting via ethernet.

You are running arch on a virtual machine - it's not supposed to see the actual hardware, it sees virtual hardware.

I think there may be ways change this so the guest system can see the real hardware, but this is not the default. The guest system connects via the virtual machine's ethernet even when the host system is connected via wireless.

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