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awpe

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Registered: 2011-07-04

Posts: 17

asus g73 wireless setup on atheros 9285

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to get my wireless connection working on my g73 but I haven’t succeeded yet.
laptop asus g73jh

wireless module(lspci | grep atheros):

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

my /etc/rc.conf daemons

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng)

First thing I've done after installation and after configuring "/etc/network.d/arhuiworks" was adding the following to /etc/rc.local:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid arhuiworks
sleep 2
netcfg2 arhuiworks
exit 0

This way I've had wireless connection after reboot BUT it was much slower then in ubuntu for ex.

Now I'm trying to get it working by wpa_supplicant

I've changed my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to:

network={
        ssid="arhuiworks"
        psk=dfb5b0b78488eb6e993f0332245eabf27eb8db7c494d94fd3f97fda0f7ccb80f
}

/etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.0.1

and my /etc/rc.local:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid arhuiworks
wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2
sleep 1
exit 0

After all I don't have wireless connection at all, BUT after loading system and running rc.local manualy
iwconfig displays that essid:arhuiworks also it has freq and other values, ifconfig displays correct ip netmask and broadcast, but I can ping nothing...

What is wrong? Did I forget to do smth?

What is the best way of setting wifi configs? I mean which software is known to be the simplest?

Last edited by awpe (2011-07-06 00:25:52)

awpe

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Registered: 2011-07-04

Posts: 17

Re: asus g73 wireless setup on atheros 9285

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,774

Re: asus g73 wireless setup on atheros 9285

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Hello, and welcome to Arch.

First, a mild scolding,  Do not just bump threads.  If you must, at the least, please share with us new information or your experiences in researching the problem.  See the forum etiquette article

Enough said

Can you post the output of:
iwlist scan
ip ip link
and of
iwconfig

and maybe:

lspci -nn | grep Atheros

Thanks

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awpe

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Registered: 2011-07-04

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Re: asus g73 wireless setup on atheros 9285

iwlist scan - will scan for non-hidden essid, mine is hidden.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,774

Re: asus g73 wireless setup on atheros 9285

iwlist scan - will scan for non-hidden essid, mine is hidden.

Okay.  I missed that you were using a hidden ESSID.

You are using a static address which complicates things a bit.  A working dhcpcd says a lot about the functionality of the wireless subsystem.  So, moving on...

Does ifconfig show that you are associated (do you see the MAC of your access point)?
If not, you need to resolve that first.

You had said you can ping nothing.  Does that include the router ?
If not, you probably have a pass phrase problem.  Once associated, play with wpa_supplicant (maybe the command line tool)
-or-
Are you sure that the router is really using subnet 192.168.0.* ; and that 192.168.0.2 is available on that network?
-or-
Does you router drop traffic from addresses it does not dynamically assign or that it has not been told to reserve as static?

If you can ping the router, but nothing else, then you are dealing with a lack of default gateway (see ip route or route  )

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awpe

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Registered: 2011-07-04

Posts: 17

Re: asus g73 wireless setup on atheros 9285

As I mentioned I don't have "network" in my daemons array, today I've tried this after system loading:

ifconfig wlan0 up
wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
iwconfig wlan0 arhuiworks
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2

then i was able to ping 192.168.0.1 (the router) but not 8.8.8.8 or smth else...

will try "route" now...

awpe

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Registered: 2011-07-04

Posts: 17

Re: asus g73 wireless setup on atheros 9285

Thanks! Now I've got internet, writting now under arch) But I want to ask - the speed of connection shown by iwconfig is 54mbit/s but in win7 it is 150mbit/s - can I get my atheros working in arch on the same speed?