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Goog morning,

I have a notebook Fujitsu Siemens V5535. I have installed here a Linux Mint 13 Maya but I cannot use wifi because the drivers for this are not installed.
I have tryed to install many drivers that I have found in many blogs and forums but the results are not good.
Can you help me?

Thank You very much

Federico

Please open Terminal from the menu, type this and press Enter: It'll show what network adapter the computer has - please post that output here.

Ok, I have used your instructions.

Terminal says:

Network: Card-1: Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
Card-2: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: sis190

Federico

Did you perhaps blacklist the ath5k driver somewhere? Please remove that blacklist, if there is one. Also, did you perhaps try to install madwifi? Please remove it.

I tryed to install madwifi and ath5k driver but not good. So must I remove this drivers?

Please remove the drivers you tried to install, and remove the blacklists you put in there. When you're back at the original situation, please reboot and run these commands, and post the output: madwifi is an old driver that maybe could get the device working on Linux in the past, but has been superseded by better drivers.

Output of terminal:

Graphics: Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.11.3 driver: N/A Resolution: 1024x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Direct Rendering: Yes

thank you

Oops, that was the output for graphics instead of for network, I meant inxi -N. And could you also post the output of rfkill list?

inxi -N:

Network: Card-1: Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
Card-2: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: sis190

and "rfkill list":

with this comand on Terminal I haven't an output.

OK. Does anything happen if you run this in terminal:

No, I run your comand (sudo modprobe ath5k) on Terminal but I haven't an output...

Ok, but has anything changed after running that? Does inxi -N output show "driver ath5k" behind the wireless card now, and does the network icon show anything when clicking it?

federicosistema wrote:No, I run your comand (sudo modprobe ath5k) on Terminal but I haven't an output...

modprobe doesn't output anything when the operation went fine.

If I run your comand on Terminal, don't happen anything.
I have the possibility to create a new connection wifi but notebook doesn't view new connections wifi.

Could you run these commands (after running sudo modprobe ath5k, in case you had shut down your computer since you previously ran that command):

utente@utente-ESPRIMO-Mobile ~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

eth0 no wireless extensions.

utente@utente-ESPRIMO-Mobile ~ $ dmesg | grep ath
[ 136.157010] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 136.157026] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 136.157084] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[ 136.654455] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x30
[ 136.654461] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 136.654466] ath: Country alpha2 being used: AM
[ 136.654470] ath: Regpair used: 0x30
[ 136.693960] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
[ 136.693993] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
[ 136.694007] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
utente@utente-ESPRIMO-Mobile ~ $ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
utente@utente-ESPRIMO-Mobile ~ $

Ok, that looks much better, we can make this change permanent: (replace gedit with pluma on Mate editions)

In that text file please put ath5k on a new line.

Do you see any networks when clicking the network icon now?

No, I dont' see any networks when I click the network icon...

Does it report your network when running sudo iwlist scan?