Help with atheros wireless on acer aspire 5749

[engrayman61]

I installed Full monty on an acer but the 9k drivers don't work with the wireless windows sees the wireless as an 8k not 9k I tryed to get the driver package from atheros but since they were bought by quallcom they have pulled the linux package from the net. If someone has the 8k package that had been on the net I would like to get it. or any other help would be greatly appreciated.

[AS]

I installed Full monty on an acer but the 9k drivers don't work with the wireless windows sees the wireless as an 8k not 9k I tryed to get the driver package from atheros but since they were bought by quallcom they have pulled the linux package from the net. If someone has the 8k package that had been on the net I would like to get it. or any other help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

some more detailed info please, open a terminal, type in the following command:

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lspci -nn -k
post here the few lines related to the atheros wifi adapter.

AS

[Ramchu]

Have you read this ?
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,56672.0.html

[engrayman61]

Correction on windows it sees my Wireless as AR5b125

here is the output of the command you recomended

07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200] : Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev ff)
Kernel modules: ath9k

[AS]

Correction on windows it sees my Wireless as AR5b125

here is the output of the command you recomended

07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200] : Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev ff)
Kernel modules: ath9k

that's correct, ath9k is the module that support your adapter:

filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko.gz
license:        Dual BSD/GPL
description:    Support for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN cards.
author:         Atheros Communications
srcversion:     AF911BE2C6FB8701696FF61
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000032sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000030sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000002Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000002Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000002Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000002Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd0000002Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000029sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000027sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000024sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000023sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        ath9k_hw,mac80211,ath9k_common,ath,cfg80211
vermagic:       2.6.38.8-pclos3.pae SMP mod_unload modversions 686
parm:           debug:Debugging mask (uint)
parm:           nohwcrypt:Disable hardware encryption (int)
parm:           blink:Enable LED blink on activity (int)
parm:           btcoex_enable:Enable wifi-BT coexistence (int)

please follow the thread highlighted from Ramchu for further analisys ...

AS