Hi
I got Mint 14 installed on my Asus S400CA laptop.
When I am connecting to wireless network, it is only working if I'm really close to the source. If I get a few meters away, the signal drops and I can no longer connect.
When I boot the same machine with the Windows 8 installation the wireless is just fine.
The wireless modem is Atheros ar9285wb-eg.
When I tried to install the .inf driver with "windows wireless driver" program, It said that the driver is ok, but then when I rebooted the system didn't recognize any modem in the hardware.
Anyone knows the reason? and how do I fix it? (maybe the n-speed?)
Thanks
$ uname -a
Linux bamboo 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"kusiot only"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0E:2E:8F:67:84
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=39/70 Signal level=-71 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:298 Invalid misc:3157 Missed beacon:0
Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
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Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
Please uninstall the driver from Windows Wireless Drivers. After rebooting when wifi is working again, please run:
In that text editor please put:
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gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf
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options ath9k nohwcrypt
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Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
Thanks Albert for the fast response,
I did what you said (but I had no need to uninstall the windows driver- it is not installed) and then rebooted the system, but it didn't work:
I erased the file and rebooted and I got it back to the previous state.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
I did what you said (but I had no need to uninstall the windows driver- it is not installed) and then rebooted the system, but it didn't work:
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$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
In your first post you said you had tried Windows Wireless Drivers to load the .inf file, so it may be that ath9k got blacklisted that way. Could you please run:
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sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf
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Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
Sorry, no such file:
the files in the modprobe.d:
the files in the modprobe.d:
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alsa-base.conf blacklist-oss.conf
ath9k.conf blacklist-rare-network.conf
blacklist-ath_pci.conf blacklist-watchdog.conf
blacklist.conf dkms.conf
blacklist-firewire.conf iwlwifi.conf
blacklist-framebuffer.conf vmwgfx-fbdev.conf
blacklist-modem.conf
Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
Ok, so setting options ath9k nohwcrypt did not work. Make sure you didn't mistype it. A typo there would indeed cause the wireless to disappear completely. Apart from that I don't know why setting this in ath9k.conf would make wlan0 disappear from the iwconfig output.
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Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
Hi,
did you forget =1 ?:
I just tested it, it doesn't improve the signal strength...
Thanks
did you forget =1 ?:
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options ath9k nohwcrypt=1
Thanks
Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
The ath9k_htc needs =1 indeed when setting nohwcrypt (else it does not load), but all other Atheros drivers including ath9k should do the same thing when there is no =1.
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Re: Atheros ar9285wb-eg problem on MINT 14
Thanks Albert.
Anyway, it didn't help for the signal strength...
Any other ideas?
Thanks
Anyway, it didn't help for the signal strength...
Any other ideas?
Thanks