Hello, as you probably know, compat-wireless-* packages are broken, so lot of users are having problems with their wireless, specially those owning an ath9k, a very common wifi card mounted on netbooks.
Can someone contact the authors or tell me how can I reach them?
Thanks.
Hi
My ASUS 1000HE netbook uses ath9k and works fine without any user manual
intervention.
Model: "Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)"
Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
Device: pci 0x002a "AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)"
Driver: "ath9k"
Driver Modules: "ath9k"
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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and don’t you experiment these things? :
Hi
Ummm, yes, through betas and RC’s.
I get full speed, no loss of connection and sometimes it plays up from
resume, but fn+wireless off/on brings it back to life.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:
Power Management:on
Link Quality=34/70 Signal level=-76 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Cell 02 - Address: 00:13:10:F0:2D:3E
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=39/70 Signal level=-71 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"i"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000020befd9b18b
Extra: Last beacon: 483ms ago
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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I’ve been having problems with this. I’m using an AR928X card with ath9k and experience regular requests to re-enter the passphrase for my network. It never works and the only way to get the network running is to reboot. Before you ask - the passphrase is correct!
I’ve tried to use compat-wireless but cannot get it to install. I’ve also tried the link for the updated ath9k driver but cannot get that to work either.
It’s pretty frustrating as I can be on-line for hours without a problem, whilst at other times failure is much faster.
Has anyone any step-by-step instructions for diagnosing or repairing?
Hi
Follow the stickies at the beginning of this subforum and post the
requested outputs esp the pci id information 
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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On 01/02/2010 12:28 PM, malcolmlewis wrote:
>
> Hi
> Follow the stickies at the beginning of this subforum and post the
> requested outputs esp the pci id information
“I cannot get that to work” is not very specific.
There are no ath9k experts on this list. You can reach them at
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, but unless you give much more specific and
detailed information, they will ignore you.