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steak-sandwich n00b
Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 26
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:27 pm Post subject: [Solved] Usual wlan driver ath9k does not seem to work |
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Hi everyone,
my wireless card does not work for some reasons. It's an atheros wireless card and it used to work with the ath9k driver. But now I'm getting the following output from iwconfig:
Code: | eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 no wireless extensions.
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So it seems like it's not recognized as a wireless card. It works with the live cd but as soon as I compile the kernel the card does not work. I tried it both ways, installing the wireless support into the kernel and as modules and neither way works which is surprising because it used to work. Looks like I'm missing something.
This is the output of lsmod:
Code: | Module Size Used by
ath5k 132303 0
ath9k 93900 0
ath9k_common 1881 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 348420 2 ath9k_common,ath9k
mac80211 371015 2 ath5k,ath9k
ath 14954 4 ath9k_common,ath5k,ath9k,ath9k_hw
cfg80211 145634 4 ath,ath5k,ath9k,mac80211
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When I restart net.wlan0, I'm getting the following output:
Code: | * Bringing down interface wlan0
* Removing addresses
* Stopping wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ]
* Stopping wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... [ ok ]
* Bringing up interface wlan0
* Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument
[ ok ]
* Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ]
* Backgrounding ... ... * WARNING: net.wlan0 has started, but is inactive
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What should I do now? Any suggestions?
Thx,
Ben
Last edited by steak-sandwich on Thu May 23, 2013 3:29 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Gusar Advocate
Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 2665 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: Usual wlan driver ath9k does not seem to work |
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steak-sandwich wrote: | So it seems like it's not recognized as a wireless card. |
No, it just means there are no wireless extensions. Which is true and ok, wext is not how networking is done nowadays.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7143840.html#7143840 |
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steak-sandwich n00b
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: Usual wlan driver ath9k does not seem to work |
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Okay thanks. I still don't know how to get it to work. |
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Gusar Advocate
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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It works already. Just not with wireless extensions, but with netlink (nl80211). So simply configure things (in particular, wpa_supplicant) appropriately. |
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steak-sandwich n00b
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Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Great, thanks a lot. |
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