nwthomas0
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Joined: 04 Mar 2013
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 Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:18 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Using Atheros AR9285 wireless card (Dell Inspiron) |
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Hi all! I am posting a solution to a problem I ran into installing Gentoo.
The Dell Inspiron N5040 uses the Atheros AR9285 wireless card. When I installed Gentoo and ran iwconfig, I got the following:
| Code: | | wlan0: no wireless extensions. |
This was despite having the appropriate kernel module (ath9k) loaded. The solution I found was to downgrade to an earlier kernel version. I am now using version 3.2.39, and my wireless card works correctly. (This is probably not the most recent working version; it's just the one I picked.) The following is my kernel config:
| Code: | [*] Networking support --->
[*] Wireless --->
<M> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API
[ ] nl80211 testmode command
[ ] enable developer warnings
[ ] cfg80211 regulatory debugging
[*] enable powersave by default
[ ] cfg80211 DebugFS entries
[*] cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility
[*] Wireless extensions sysfs files
< > Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
<M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
Default rate control algorithm (Minstrel) --->
[ ] Enable mac80211 mesh networking (pre-802.11s) support
-*- Enable LED triggers
[ ] Export mac80211 internals in DebugFS
[ ] Select mac80211 debugging features --->
Device drivers --->
[*] Network device support --->
[*] Wireless LAN --->
<M> Atheros Wireless Cards --->
[ ] Atheros wireless debugging
< > Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support
[ ] Atheros 5xxx PCI bus support
<M> Atheros 802.11n wireless cards support
[*] Atheros ath9k PCI/PCIe bus support
[*] Atheros ath9k AHB bus support
[ ] Atheros ath9k debugging
[*] Atheros ath9k rate control
<M> Atheros HTC based wireless cards support
[ ] Atheros ath9k_htc debugging
< > Linux Community AR9170 802.11n USB support |
My /etc/conf.d/modules reads:
| Code: |
modules="cfg80211 mac80211 ath9k snd_hda_intel"
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