I read a few pages and couldn find a solution to this particular wifi card.
It works flawlessly in Windows 7 Home Premium, which I have in dual boot, but Mint 12 64-bit always starts on "Airplane Mode", and if I try switching the wireless on, the switch goes back to "OFF" on its own after a few milliseconds.
I tried the tutorial explained here , but it made the option of wifi itself disappear.
mintWifi gives me this:
* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002b (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:84:3c:a2:aa:85
inet addr:192.168.25.10 Bcast:192.168.25.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7a84:3cff:fea2:aa85/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1561 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1663 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1258068 (1.2 MB) TX bytes:305734 (305.7 KB)
Interrupt:43
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:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.25.1
Address: 192.168.25.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.234.115
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.234.116
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.234.112
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.234.114
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.234.113
A search for the Atheros AR9285 led me nowhere, so I thank you guys in advance and I apologize if the pertaining thread went unnoticed by me.
