I am trying to get my PCI Wireless Atheros 922 card to work. It is disabled in Unity: both the network utility and the desktop (see screenshot http://www.amisdurailhalanzy.be/Screenshot%20from%202012-10-25%2013:19:54.png)
I tried many different advises on many different forums. Installed 12.10 instead of 12.04, enabled all interfaces... etc. I have read about the aht9 driver... The terminal shows no hw or sw lock for the Atheros card, nevertheless, it is still disabled. Nothing worked so far, the card is still disabled. Any help is much appreciated. Here are more tech details:
myuser@adri1:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: AR922X Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:03:02.0
logical name: wlan1
version: 01
serial: 00:18:e7:cd:68:b1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.5.0-17-generic firmware=N/A latency=168 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:18 memory:d8000000-d800ffff
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:03:06.0
logical name: eth0
version: 8b
serial: 00:11:09:a3:76:4a
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.5.0 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:18 ioport:d300(size=256) memory:d8013000-d80130ff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:8.1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:11:09:51:75:36
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2500usb driverversion=3.5.0-17-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
myuser@adri1:~$ sudo rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
myuser@adri1:~$ dmesg | grep wlan0
[ 15.114235] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
myuser@adri1:~$ dmesg | egrep 'ath|firm'
[ 14.617562] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x30
[ 14.617568] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 14.617572] ath: Country alpha2 being used: AM
[ 14.617575] ath: Regpair used: 0x30
[ 14.637778] ieee80211 phy0: >Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'
[ 14.639410] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
myuser@adri1:~$ dmesg | grep wlan1
[ 15.119922] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
myuser@adri1:~$ lspci -nn | grep 'Atheros'
03:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0029] (rev 01)
myuser@adri1:~$ sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:a3:76:4a
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fea3:764a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3425684 (3.4 MB) TX bytes:282192 (282.1 KB)
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:590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:53729 (53.7 KB) TX bytes:53729 (53.7 KB)
myuser@adri1:~$ sudo iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
myuser@adri1:~$ lsmod | grep "ath9k"
ath9k 116549 0
mac80211 461161 3 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib,ath9k
ath9k_common 13783 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 376155 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 19187 3 ath9k,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw
cfg80211 175375 4 rt2x00lib,ath9k,mac80211,ath
myuser@adri1:~$ iwlist scan
wlan0 Failed to read scan data : Network is down
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan1 Failed to read scan data : Network is down
myuser@adri1:~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
myuser@adri1:~$ uname -mr
3.5.0-17-generic i686
Any help much appreciated...
Thanks,
Philippe
31-10-2012 ... I have some more updates. When I do the following command it does see my Wifi router... So even if it is still disabled... the card seems to work and see the router (ESSID:"5791BC26-CE9C-11D1-97BF-0000F81E") See below:
sudo iwlist wlan1 scanning
wlan1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:19:70:8F:B0:EA
Channel:10
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality=51/70 Signal level=-59 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"5791BC26-CE9C-11D1-97BF-0000F81E"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=000000025dbf2188
Extra: Last beacon: 108ms ago
IE: Unknown: 002035373931424332362D434539432D313144312D393742462D3030303046383145
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
IE: Unknown: 03010A
IE: Unknown: 0706424520010D14
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101030003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010000FF7F
IE: Unknown: DD0A00037F04010000000000
