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deathraccoon
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:30 am Post subject: alfa wireless usb device [solved]

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I was recently given an Alfa wireless device. here is the relevant output of

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lsusb

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Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n

I enabled the ath5k drivers in the kernel but ifconfig fails to show the interface. kinda new at this. any suggestions?

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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:38 am Post subject:

Isn't it ath9k_htc driver ? https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc _________________ Sent from Windows

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deathraccoon
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:44 am Post subject:

I emerged linux-firmware, compiled the kernel for support, and I now have access to the device. thank you.

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