[SOLVED] AR9285 Hard-blocked Mint14 Cinnamon 64bit

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[SOLVED] AR9285 Hard-blocked Mint14 Cinnamon 64bit

Post by GyroTech »

I have an Atheros AR9285 in an HP ProBook 4530s and I cannot get it to work.

It seems that there is a hardware block somewhere:

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$ sudo rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
But it is not the physical wireless button, as pressing that turns on a hard block (for wifi and bluetooth):

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$ sudo rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
And lshw shows it as disabled:

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$ sudo lshw -c network
  *-network DISABLED      
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:24:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 68:a3:c4:78:5b:da
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.5.0-22-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:19 memory:d4700000-d470ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:25:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 06
       serial: 64:31:50:90:c2:67
       size: 100Mbit/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=172.16.24.167 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:52 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d4404000-d4404fff memory:d4400000-d4403fff
I have tried resetting my BIOS to factory defaults, I have also added the line options ath9k nohwcrypt=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf but the phy0 was still listed as hard-blocked...

I have installed the linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic and linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-3.5.0-22-generic packages but they have not helped either.

Can someone suggest any more things I can try? Thanks.
Last edited by LockBot on Wed Dec 28, 2022 7:16 am, edited 2 times in total.
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GyroTech

Re: AR9285 Hard-blocked Mint14 Cinnamon 64bit

Post by GyroTech »

Turns out having an ethernet cable connected acts as a hardware block to the wifi, as soon as I physically disconnected the ethernet, my wifi connection sprang into life...

Damn I feel dumb from this one :D
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