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[Update]:
The same problem exists in Kubuntu and is solved in the same manner.
[Solved]:
By applying the following command nmcli nm
I got the following:
Before suspend
RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running connected enabled enabled enabled enabled
as can you see the state is connected and the rest are enabled and running
After suspend
RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running asleep enabled enabled enabled disabled
as can you see the state is asleep meaning our dear network manager is still napping, so to solve use the fallowing command line:
sudo nmcli nm sleep false
this tells the network manager to wake the hell up.
to make this permenant :
create a script in /etc/pm/sleep.d
containg the following (and don't forget to mark the script as executable):
#!/bin/sh
case "${1}" in
resume|thaw)
nmcli nm sleep false
;;
esac
Thanks to this
The original problem:
I just downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 and installed on my laptop: ASUS X61SL with Intel P8400 Core2Duo x64 processor.
When I close the lid, the system is suspended, but when I open the lid again and resume, the wireless networking is not activited (networking as a whole is disabled), and when I select "Enable Networking" nothing happens.
This is the information about my wireless adapter:
$ lspci | grep -i wireless
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
This problem wasn't present in Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint Debian Edition or Debian 7 wheezy (GNOME or KDE).
Edit: few test with the following results :
The problem effects my wireless and wired networking.
Note: I need to add the pci=nomsi
line to grub in order to boot.
When logging out manually then suspend then resume then log in every thing works just fine.
When suspending directly while logged in the problem happens.
Locking and suspending causes the same problem as suspending directly.
Also this problem appearnlty affects log out function: if you chose log out from the user menu in unity panel then you wan't log out, but if you use the command line gnome-session-quit --logout
then you can log out.
Now with lshw -C network
output:
Normal (fully functional networking):
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:24:8c:1e:f8:53
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis190 driverversion=1.4 duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:19 memory:fddfcc00-fddfcc7f ioport:cc00(size=128)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:15:af:e2:13:db
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.13.0-24-generic firmware=N/A ip=6.6.6.8 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 memory:fdff0000-fdffffff
After resume ("/etc/pm/config.d" does not contains "unload_modules"):
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:24:8c:1e:f8:53
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis190 driverversion=1.4 duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:19 memory:fddfcc00-fddfcc7f ioport:cc00(size=128)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:15:af:e2:13:db
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.13.0-24-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 memory:fdff0000-fdffffff
When I added the file unload_modules to directory "/etc/pm/config.d" as suggested by here, after logging out, suspend ,resume then log in the networking works but I cannot connect to my wireless network.
Again the result of lshw -C network
After resume ( "/etc/pm/config.d" contains "unload_modules"):
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:24:8c:1e:f8:53
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis190 driverversion=1.4 duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:19 memory:fddfcc00-fddfcc7f ioport:cc00(size=128)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:15:af:e2:13:db
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.13.0-24-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 memory:fdff0000-fdffffff
The contents of 'unload_modules" where:
SUSPEND_MODULES="$SUSPEND_MODULES ath9k"
SUSPEND_MODULES="$SUSPEND_MODULES sis190"
Where 'ath9k' is my wireless module and 'sis190' is my Ethernet module.
Source: (StackOverflow)
Since I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, my internet connection is as slow as hell. I have tested my other 10.10 machine and it is just as quick as the first one was.
What has happened? Why is the maximum download speed now 30kb/s instead of the 2.5mb/s I used to have?
Source: (StackOverflow)
How to install the driver for Atheros AR9285 in Ubuntu 11.10.
Still no package for 11.10 according to this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Atheros/AR9285
Here is the output of the commands
marc@fer-VPCYA1V9E:~$ sudo lshw -class network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 4c:0f:6e:d6:65:cc
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.0.0-12-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 memory:d3400000-d340ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 54:42:49:a2:1f:bc
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:43 memory:d2400000-d243ffff ioport:1000(size=128)
And the second command
marc@fer-VPCYA1V9E:~$ rfkill list
0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: sony-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
4: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
Is there a way to make it work?
Source: (StackOverflow)
I'm on an ASUS K52F running Ubuntu 11.10 with the AR9285 wireless card. Wifi works acceptably before suspending, after it doesn't show any networks. the only solution I've found is a full reboot.
Source: (StackOverflow)
Hey my wifi keeps prompting for the WPA2 password. Is there something that I need to do with Network Manager?
Linux version 3.5.0-17-generic (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) )
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Source: (StackOverflow)
I have a new motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5. This motherboard has an Atheros killer e2400 Ethernet controller. When I do lspci -nn
, I get:
03.00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [1969:e0a1] (rev 10)
Google didn't seem to know the answer. Only a similar unsolved problem on the openSUSE forum.
Source: (StackOverflow)
I have exhausted google on how to do this, compounded by being a beginner.
I am trying to install this module.
I have a nice new Acer Nitro (which will be even nicer once I remove dependency on win 8.1), with Atheros Qualcomm QCA61x4 wifi/bluetooth card, which seems to pop up with the same signature 168c:003e
as the QCA6174, so I am hoping this module will work.
I have tried with windows drivers and ndiswrapper but this didn't work for me.
I have also tried upgrading the kernel to 3.19 but that didn't seem to fix it. Now on a FRESH 14.04 install.
Source: (StackOverflow)
I'm having severe issues w/ package-loss and a generally bad connection w/in a WiFi-network at my uni. I'm usually encountering a package loss of ~50% and aborting connections which makes working w/ SaaS impossible.
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 and my network-adapter is an Atheros AR9462.
Applying the nohwcrypt=1-option doesn't change anything.
Also very noticable: The connection works as intended in other networks; the problematic network uses WPA2 w/ MSCHAPv2.
Anyone can help my out here?
$ sudo lshw -class network *-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d3500000-d350ffff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: e0:06:e6:76:ba:89
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.8.0-22-generic firmware=N/A ip=131.173.74.130 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:19 memory:d3400000-d347ffff memory:9fb00000-9fb0ffff
Source: (StackOverflow)
Recently i updated my 12.10 ubuntu, ever since i got this strange wifi internet problem. Net works fine on the initial boot, after couple of web requests from a browser or command line or any tool, internet stopped working. I have to disconnect & connect the wifi to get it work again.
It happens every few minutes. Its frustrating. It was working fine before the upgrade. I am sure this is not the machine problem, because my dual boot win 8 works fine.
I tried iwconfig
, this is the output
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"jumbotron"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 08:86:3B:8C:C0:74
Bit Rate=150 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=50/70 Signal level=-60 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:0
anybody know whats goin on?
Update:
I connected my android phone in wlan and enabled USB tethering with ubuntu machine. It works great.
So the problem is defenitly with wireless configuration or drivers
These are some configs i got
lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:08:ca:e6:6b:59
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.2.0-23-generic-pae firmware=N/A ip=192.168.2.11 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:dea00000-dea7ffff memory:dea80000-dea8ffff
ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:137632 (137.6 KB) TX bytes:137632 (137.6 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:ca:e6:6b:59
inet addr:192.168.2.11 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::208:caff:fee6:6b59/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1400 Metric:1
RX packets:12133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11872 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9352562 (9.3 MB) TX bytes:1851594 (1.8 MB)
nm-tool
NetworkManager Tool
State: connected (global)
- Device: wlan0 [jumbotron] -------------------------------------------------
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: ath9k
State: connected
Default: yes
HW Address: 00:08:CA:E6:6B:59
Capabilities:
Speed: 150 Mb/s
Wireless Properties
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption: yes
Wireless Access Points (* = current AP)
*jumbotron: Infra, 08:86:3B:8C:C0:74, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 57 WPA WPA2
IPv4 Settings:
Address: 192.168.2.11
Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
Gateway: 192.168.2.1
DNS: 192.168.2.1
Source: (StackOverflow)
I bought an Acer laptop and installed Ubuntu 14.04LTS but WiFi drivers are not available for it. So I am trying to install a windows driver using wifidocs/driver/ndiswrapper.
On doing lspci -vvnn
, it gives:
Network controller [0280: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30)
Then I also disabled the atheros drivers. Using lspci
and lspci -n
, I can say PCI id is 168c:0042
. But Acer website has three atheros drivers. I could not figure out which one to download but downloaded one on a windows PC and pasted the zip file on my desktop then unzipped it from the terminal using unzip <filename>.zip
. The page says you have to go to control panel system hardware and all that on the windows system. I did not do it. Windows computer not being mine, I am afraid I should not install any additional driver on it. After unzipping it has one .inx
file and one .bin
file but no .sys
file. I don't know whether I am completely right till here or have I missed something? And if I am right then how to proceed from here? I also made a new directory and copied the unzipped .inx
and .bin
files in it. Then in that directory I ran the ndiswrapper -i <filename>.inf
but it says ndiswrapper
not installed and when I do sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common
, I get the reply that ndiswrapper-common
is already the latest version. What to do? here is my
dmesg | grep ath10k result
[ 7.882758] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 8.190016] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 8.334587] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board-2.bin failed with error -2
[ 10.140677] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: qca9377 hw1.0 (0x05020000, 0x003820ff sub 105b:e09a) fw WLAN.TF.1.0-00267-1 fwapi 5 bdapi 1 htt-ver 3.1 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1 features ignore-otp
[ 10.140682] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: debug 0 debugfs 0 tracing 0 dfs 0 testmode 0
Here is the output of
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:098a]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:0042] (rev 30)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e09a]
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Source: (StackOverflow)
How can I connect to 2 WiFi networks at the same time with only 1 WiFi-adapter?
I have two separate wireless networks, to which I need to connect the Ubuntu-PC simultaneously: The first with internet access and the other one without internet access.
I tried to create a Virtual Interface and even though there doesn't seem to be an error, it did not appear in the Network Manager. It would seem, the driver I am using, is ath9k:
How can I find out whether my it can create virtual wireless interfaces? Can I replace the driver ath9k, if it doesn't support virtual interfaces?
Source: (StackOverflow)
My wireless works, but I have to right click the network manager applet and enable wireless on every boot which is annoying.
This is the output of rfkill normally:
x@Triela:~$ rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
When I rfkill block 0; rfkill block 1 this is what I get:
x@Triela:~$ rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
When I rfkill unblock all, it clears all but the soft block on 0. My wireless is switched on/off by fn + f3. The indicator light for it is lit when connected, and blinks when there is activity, but it does not show me the on/off state.
I have tried everything I could find on the internet, but nothing has worked to unblock it or keep wireless enabled.
This is the output of my wifi card from lspci -v:
06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e034
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at d0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k
Source: (StackOverflow)
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, and my wireless connection disconnects every 30 seconds. I am using an Asus Eee PC with an Atheros wireless card. I tried to find out how to solve this, so I gave up and rebooted my computer. Now the touchpad doesn't work. I tried to do a system restore, and it won't even start. The netbook goes straight to the login page. I'm going to have to switch to another Linux distro or use an older Ubuntu distro, because this is not working. I am not a skilled computer programmer, so I don't know what to do.
Source: (StackOverflow)
Hi I've been fighting these wireless drivers for a few days and just recently i noticed that the model the Wireless controller appears in lspci is different sometimes. This is the data i have after installing Ubuntu Server 64 bit
~# lspci -k
....
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: AzureWave Device 1d89
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k
ran some updates, restarted, all was good, all though it did say that linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server where beeing kept back.
After that i installed ubuntu-desktop (aptitude install ubuntu-desktop --without-recommends) restarted and not only is the wireless not working anymore, but the hardware is listed as a different card
~# lspci -k
....
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
has no available drivers for it, still i tried to modprobe ath9k, they show up in lsmod as loaded, but still iw list shows nothing.
this is what it looked like before the ubuntu-desktop instalation
Wiphy phy0
Band 1:
Capabilities: 0x11ce
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
RX HT40 SGI
TX STBC
RX STBC 1-stream
Max AMSDU length: 3839 bytes
DSSS/CCK HT40
Maximum RX AMPDU length 65535 bytes (exponent: 0x003)
Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 8 usec (0x06)
HT TX/RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-7
Frequencies:
* 2412 MHz [1] (14.0 dBm)
* 2417 MHz [2] (15.0 dBm)
* 2422 MHz [3] (15.0 dBm)
* 2427 MHz [4] (15.0 dBm)
* 2432 MHz [5] (15.0 dBm)
* 2437 MHz [6] (15.0 dBm)
* 2442 MHz [7] (15.0 dBm)
* 2447 MHz [8] (15.0 dBm)
* 2452 MHz [9] (15.0 dBm)
* 2457 MHz [10] (15.0 dBm)
* 2462 MHz [11] (15.0 dBm)
* 2467 MHz [12] (15.0 dBm) (passive scanning)
* 2472 MHz [13] (14.0 dBm) (passive scanning)
* 2484 MHz [14] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning)
Bitrates (non-HT):
* 1.0 Mbps
* 2.0 Mbps (short preamble supported)
* 5.5 Mbps (short preamble supported)
* 11.0 Mbps (short preamble supported)
* 6.0 Mbps
* 9.0 Mbps
* 12.0 Mbps
* 18.0 Mbps
* 24.0 Mbps
* 36.0 Mbps
* 48.0 Mbps
* 54.0 Mbps
max # scan SSIDs: 4
max scan IEs length: 2257 bytes
Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)
Supported Ciphers:
* WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1)
* WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5)
* TKIP (00-0f-ac:2)
* CCMP (00-0f-ac:4)
* CMAC (00-0f-ac:6)
Available Antennas: TX 0x1 RX 0x3
Configured Antennas: TX 0x1 RX 0x3
Supported interface modes:
* IBSS
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* WDS
* monitor
* mesh point
* P2P-client
* P2P-GO
software interface modes (can always be added):
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
interface combinations are not supported
Supported commands:
* new_interface
* set_interface
* new_key
* new_beacon
* new_station
* new_mpath
* set_mesh_params
* set_bss
* authenticate
* associate
* deauthenticate
* disassociate
* join_ibss
* join_mesh
* remain_on_channel
* set_tx_bitrate_mask
* action
* frame_wait_cancel
* set_wiphy_netns
* set_channel
* set_wds_peer
* connect
* disconnect
Supported TX frame types:
* IBSS: 0x0000 0x0010 0x0020 0x0030 0x0040 0x0050 0x0060 0x0070 0x0080 0x0090 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0 0x00e0 0x00f0
* managed: 0x0000 0x0010 0x0020 0x0030 0x0040 0x0050 0x0060 0x0070 0x0080 0x0090 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0 0x00e0 0x00f0
* AP: 0x0000 0x0010 0x0020 0x0030 0x0040 0x0050 0x0060 0x0070 0x0080 0x0090 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0 0x00e0 0x00f0
* AP/VLAN: 0x0000 0x0010 0x0020 0x0030 0x0040 0x0050 0x0060 0x0070 0x0080 0x0090 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0 0x00e0 0x00f0
* mesh point: 0x0000 0x0010 0x0020 0x0030 0x0040 0x0050 0x0060 0x0070 0x0080 0x0090 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0 0x00e0 0x00f0
* P2P-client: 0x0000 0x0010 0x0020 0x0030 0x0040 0x0050 0x0060 0x0070 0x0080 0x0090 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0 0x00e0 0x00f0
* P2P-GO: 0x0000 0x0010 0x0020 0x0030 0x0040 0x0050 0x0060 0x0070 0x0080 0x0090 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0 0x00e0 0x00f0
Supported RX frame types:
* IBSS: 0x00d0
* managed: 0x0040 0x00d0
* AP: 0x0000 0x0020 0x0040 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0
* AP/VLAN: 0x0000 0x0020 0x0040 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0
* mesh point: 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0
* P2P-client: 0x0040 0x00d0
* P2P-GO: 0x0000 0x0020 0x0040 0x00a0 0x00b0 0x00c0 0x00d0
Device supports RSN-IBSS.
What's with the hardware change? If it has 2, how can i make the AR9285 always load and disable AR5008, or, is it the same and it's just showing it different? :|
Oh and I've tried this on Ubuntu 10.04 server, xubuntu 12.04, ubuntu 12.04 desktop and server.
Thanks in advanced.
-- Here's some more info, i have it setup in 2 hard drives, 1 works and the other one i'm using to figure it out
The one that works...
# lshw -class network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 06
serial: 54:04:a6:a3:3b:96
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw ip=192.168.2.147 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:d0004000-d0004fff memory:d0000000-d0003fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 74:2f:68:4a:26:73
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.2.0-18-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:18 memory:fea00000-fea0ffff
Here's where it doesn't
# lshw -class network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 06
serial: 54:04:a6:a3:3b:96
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw ip=192.168.2.160 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:d0004000-d0004fff memory:d0000000-d0003fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:fea00000-fea0ffff
Update
I've noticed that if i blacklist the ath9k and ath9k_common modules lspci gives me the AR9285, but then I need to modprobe ath9k for it to work, does this make any sense? If so, why?
Update
Messed around with some other packages this morning and it was listing the AR5008, reinstalled some drivers and now it's AR9285 -.-
Update
here is /var/log/udev , right now it's saying it's AR5008 found some reference to that somewhere in the log - PCI_ID=168C:FF1C
Update
@aking1012 ath5k are never loaded, tried the blacklist though, but still no.
blacklisting ath9k and ath9k_common sometimes do it, but then with no other changes it stops having any affect
These are the modules i'm playing with the blacklist
blacklist ath5k
blacklist ath9k
blacklist ath9k_common
blacklist eeepc_wmi
blacklist asus_wmi
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist wmi
Update
This seems to be working so far on 32 bit, if so, thanks @david6
Update
@jrg @david6
Installed Video drivers and it's broken again
Update
Not that it's relevant to Ubuntu, but I just got the same thing running windows on it, AR5008... restarted AR9285, one worked, the other didn't ... looking more like a hardware issue now
Source: (StackOverflow)
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS after installing windows 10 in my new VN7-571G and the wireless is not working.
It never had: even during the installation it was not recognized.
I run a script to gather the data , which is here.
lspci -knn | grep Net -A2
output
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Device [168c:003e] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:0804]
The OS behaves like it has no wifi card. I do not see wifi settings in network settings
I'm not a linux power user, so I do not know what to do to solve the issue.
What should I do to make it work?
Source: (StackOverflow)