TP-LINK drivers

[TIMONLINE]

I've just bought a TP-LINK WN-851 PCI wifi card and, from reviews, expected it to be plug and play but sadly not.

Would someone perhaps be able to explain to me (an idiots guide) exactly how to install the drivers?

[Oscar799]

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[AlbertP]

There's a bug in the ath9k driver regarding PCI cards (the PCIe versions work). It can be fixed by installing a new driver version.

Please download compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Downl ... he_tarball and extract the file. From the folder where you extracted it, please right-click > Open in Terminal. In that terminal, please run:

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make
sudo make install

[TIMONLINE]

Thanks Albert - all done but still my wifi card hasn't sprung into life or made itself known! What next?

[AlbertP]

Please run inxi -N and rfkill list in terminal and paste the output here.

[TIMONLINE]

Network: Card-1 Atheros Device 002d
Card-2 Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too

[AlbertP]

Right, that's the AR9227 chip. It should work.

Could you run dmesg | grep ath and post the output? If it shows nothing, please run sudo modprobe ath9k and try again.

[TIMONLINE]

[ 2.114729] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
[ 2.114733] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded


So how exactly do I get to use my TP-Link wifi card? from here?

[AlbertP]

Seems it's not loading the ath9k driver at all. Does sudo modprobe ath9k do anything?

[TIMONLINE]

It says -

WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a further release.

[TIMONLINE]

Does this help?

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge [1106:3205]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-via
Kernel modules: via-agp
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge [1106:b198]
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002d] (rev 01)
Kernel modules: ath9k
00:0a.0 Communication controller [0780]: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k HSFi Modem [14f1:2f00] (rev 01)
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 80)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 80)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 80)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 82)
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge [1106:3177]
Kernel modules: i2c-viapro, via-ircc
00:11.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
Kernel driver in use: pata_via
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 50)
Kernel driver in use: VIA 82xx Audio
Kernel modules: snd-via82xx
00:13.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] [1106:7205] (rev 01)

[TIMONLINE]

Any more ideas anyone?

[TIMONLINE]

I think I've now managed to install the driver -

[ 2.114700] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
[ 2.114704] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 471.538779] ath9k: 0.1

but how do I get the wifi to work?!