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tasse

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Registered: 2013-10-12

Posts: 5

Asus EEEPC 1005 PE - Wifi Issue

Hello everybody,

I am trying to get a working wifi-connection with ARCH and the EEE PC.

Whenever I connect my wifi, it disconnects immediately as soon as some bytes are received and reconnects afterwards.
The Wifi is WPA2 and the signal strength (if connected) is between 90 and 100%.

lspci -v:

Network Controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 101)
Subsystem: AzureWave AW-NE785 / AW-NE785H 802.11bgn Wirless Full or Half-size Mini PCIe Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at fbff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k

iwconfig

wlp2s0    IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=14 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

rfkill list all

0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

I tried using netctl, wicd, networkmanager - all resulting in the same Problem.

I would be really glad if someone could help me, thanks!

tasse

Last edited by tasse (2014-03-11 14:09:34)

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,491

Re: Asus EEEPC 1005 PE - Wifi Issue

Hi tasse,
You should find some entry in the journal about the disconnection reason. That might be helpful.

You could try loading the module with the following option:

# modprobe -r ath9k
# modprobe ath9k nohwcrypt=1 

If that does not help, have a look whether you get better results with the compat-driver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#ath9k