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hi. lately i got a DELL inspiron 15-3521, i installed the latest Linux mint cinnamon. i have been having some problems with my ethernet card, when ... for this problem? i appreciated any help. my ethernet card is: "Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)"

Hello people of the linux mint forum. I have a laptop with Linux Mint 14 (64 bit cinnamon) on it, and everything's ... changed any settings yet. The laptop is an Asus K54C and the wireless card is an Atheros... One thing I have to say is the wireless icon on the laptop itself isn't lit ...

For your Atheros AR8162 wired this is the solution I see repeated: http://askubuntu.com/a/157604 For your Broadcom BCM4313 wireless I'd suggest getting the wired connection working, hooking it up, and then following these steps ...

I think the title tells it all. I am running Mint Debian Edition. Output of mintWifi: ------------------------- * I. scanning ... Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no lspci -v (removed all other hardware except Atheros) 06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413/AR2414 ...

... such file or directory grep: program: No such file or directory grep: as: No such file or directory grep: super-user.: No such file or directory Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01) Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI ...

... one responder stated she was installing Linux Mint on her HP Mini, so I googled Linux Mint, read ... version: 308F0 Ver. F.19 date: 01/12/2010 CPU: Single core Intel Atom CPU N270 (-HT-) ... Architecture ver: 1.0.25 Network: Card-1: Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet driver: atl1c ver: ...

hey man can you give information about:
how did you uninstalled the compat-wireless drivers
how did you install the new version?

having same issue. thanks for any help

inxi -N
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
driver: bcma-pci-bridge
Card-2: Atheros AR8162 Fast Ethernet

I found this:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Also, in Software Sources - Additional Drivers - Theres nothing! Completely emty!

I am running 32-bit Mint 13 MATE on an ASUS netbook, with an Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter, using driver ath9k. Under Mint 9, the wireless card worked perfectly. ...

Thanks...

~ $ inxi -nN
Network: Card-1: Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 70:f1:a1:4e:db:3c
Card-2: Broadcom NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 70:5a:b6:fb:02:83

I had the same issue with me and the wifes wifi we both have a Atheros AR9287 ath9k find that out by putting inxi -N in the terminal, if that's yours then I just put this in the terminal sudo sh -c "echo 'options ath9k nohwcrypt=1' > /etc/modprobe.d/custom-wireless.conf" ...

... on my Toshiba L775. The result of sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py is ------------------------- * I. scanning WIFI PCI devices... -- Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) ==> PCI ID = 168c:002b (rev 01) ------------------------- * II. querying ...

... 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.8.3 Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP G60 ... tty size: 80x38 Advanced Data: N/A for root Network: Card-1: Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k IF: wlan0 ...

... laptops, with or without a graphics card by AMD or NVIDIA and with wireless and ethernet chips from various different manufacturers (Intel, Atheros, Realtek, Ralink, Broadcom, ...). This way, two laptops from the same manufacturer can be totally different when it comes to drivers. And you ...

... 32 bit Maya (for my spare partition), a 32 bit Mint 12 OS installed (my failsafe partition) and a 64 bit Mint ... 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: aa:00:04:00:0a:04 Card-2 Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver ...

hola amigo a mi no me reconocia el ethernet de atheros asi que hise esto y funciona perfecto en mi portatil de 64bits con linuxmint 14 despues de actualizar todo, saludos sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.5/compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc.tar.bz2 ...

You can get the Atheros going by downloading a .deb file named linux-backports-modules-cw... and installing ... If you have a clean install of Mint 14 then 'linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-3.5.0-17-generic_3.5.0-17.1_amd64.deb' is ...

I'm just after installing the latest version of mint on my lenovo g580 The WiFi will pick up the network but wont actually connect ... manner, I'm new to linux. The wifi card is a broadcom 4313 And the lan is an atheros AR8162

catweazel wrote:

pacmandones wrote:Network: Card: Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet

If you can post the output of the command below it'll only take a few seconds to have your NIC up and running.

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uname -r

Thanks for the reply catweazel. I entered the command you provided and the output is as follows: 3.5.0-17-generic

pacmandones wrote:Network: Card: Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet

If you can post the output of the command below it'll only take a few seconds to have your NIC up and running.

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uname -r