The Wireless Card is an Atheros AR9285, I have installed the window 7 drivers for this card via ndiswrapper and can connect to networks, even load pages. Simple pages like Google (load fine) something like Facebook not so much and you can almost forget running Updates. Before anyone makes mention: this is not a router/home net problem -- all other mobile devices use my wireless just fine (even this laptop did using Windows 7/Ubuntu) I REALLY like mint and don't want to be forced off of it by "slow wifi"
MintWifi Ouput:
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torren@torren-workstation ~ $ mintWifi
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* 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...
netathr : driver installed
device (168C:002B) present (alternate driver: ath9k)
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"HOME-DF02"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:D1:1E:DF:00
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1743 Invalid misc:56 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:be:f9:3a:81
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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:221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20803 (20.8 KB) TX bytes:20803 (20.8 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:dd:08:db:22:1a
inet addr:10.0.0.4 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7add:8ff:fedb:221a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5715 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4665871 (4.6 MB) TX bytes:1028084 (1.0 MB)
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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: 75.75.75.75
Address: 75.75.75.75#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.40
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.32
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.38
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.36
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.35
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.41
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.46
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.37
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.39
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.34
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.33
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wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:dd:08:db:22:1a
inet addr:10.0.0.4 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7add:8ff:fedb:221a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4667831 (4.6 MB) TX bytes:1029742 (1.0 MB)
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Network: Card-1: Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k bus-ID: 09:00.0
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 6000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
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09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. T77H126.00 802.11bgn Wireless Half-size Mini PCIe Card [105b:e017]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
I have already done tricks like increasing wireless card to 54MPBS and adding "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" to ath9k.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/ while these improved the insanely slow connection after installing the driver, they still have not brought the speed to nromal. I humbly ask assistance so that I may keep using this wonderful distro instead of being forced back to "user-friendly" Ubuntu.
p.s. Not sure this will be any help, last night I installed WICD in an effort to speed up the wifi connection (as was mentioned in some threads) and just a moment ago I brought up the WICD connection info:
WICD Connection Info Screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/RoZPo6D.jpg
I sat watching it as I attempted to load different pages and the speed fluctuates a lot, sometimes @ 13mpbs, sometimes @ 39mbps, sometimes @ 54mpbs and I even seen it register a 60+mbps
Thanks,
Torren