Atheros Lan Driver
Niklas Terki
I looked at the wiki to find out where to go from there to use wireless internet. I think I know which driver to use, I believe its ath9k? I am stuck here because I don't know how I can install this driver. The wiki for that driver asks me to enable mac80211 in the kernel configuration... I can't figure out what to do here.. and I am not sure if its really the right driver anyways..Here is the link for that driver
Well I have been reading it... and I can't seem to get past this one portion of the setup. It seems that something isn't working and I have been trying to trouble shoot this whole but I can't seem to figure out what the problem is yet
Well... they didn't work because apparently I needed to use the AUR to find a certain package to finish the installation. I had a friend help me troubleshoot... It recognized my card and the driver was (as mcmillan mentioned) available. The only problem I had was getting a certain command to work... I believe rmmod (DRIVER NAME).
I have been having problems with wireless on Ubuntu 10 and above, Mint 11 and above.The problem is in the driver for the wireless... I can see that there is no driver installed and yet it works but reduced a lot, for example:
my computer is an HP probook 4530s [LH313EA#ABV] with Win 8 pro 64bit, main problem is the wifi network adapter, on device manager it sais AR9285, Maximum speed is 54Mbps, and it dose not detect a 5Gh wifi anymore, this is how it was installed by win 8 and hp support assistance, the actualy chipsit is AR5B195 and i dont find any drivers for it, please help ....
To summarize: the Atheros AR5B195 card is a combo WiFi/Bluetooth card. HP site for some obscure or just stupid reason does not offer a proper all-in-one setup application for it. Instead, they offer you 20+ "drivers" in the "Network" section. In order to make it work, apparently, you should install 2 of them. Which two and in what order - I haven't managed to figure out, even though I've been trying for hours.
This is not the first time I am experiencing a catasrophically bad HP support. That's a great pitty because I've been a satisfied HP user for a decade. The hardware and the build of HP laptops quality is superb, but the user support and drivers provisioning is just lame.
Btw, your card could not be faulty and/or your NitroAN515-42 OS either, as at your home the modem is working perfectly. I suggest that when youare at an outside location just recalibrate the WiFi card and let it calibrateto the WiFi modem of your location, this is especially when the QCA61X4A card works 100% on your home modem with this card.
It's three and a half years of wifi issues with this Atheros driver (12.0.0.910), has a poor understanding of multiple hardware with the same SSID, is very picky of Wifi settings on the router (if it wasn't such an important laptop, I would have different router settings to optimize the location, and not one of 100 client machines).
It's sad that I am contemplating using a 5$ USB wifi dongle to circumvent the software issues I have with this product, Aspire A515-54. We've had several Acer's in the past ten years, there weren't as many issues because the tech didn't change so much (security, Wifi standards, etc) so quickly.
Atheros drivers tend to follow a lineage of hardware families and as they progress pick things up from one family or another and sometimes keep things the same. So hardware or EEPROM layouts can share certain characteristics and the same code can be reused through different hardware families.
To help other FOSS Operating Systems, when possible, Atheros licenses their device drivers source code under a permissive license. Atheros picked the ISC License due to historical reasons, mainly that of the ath5k developers also choosing it to help share code between Linux and OpenBSD. Atheros follows this tradition to further assist not only OpenBSD but also other FOSS Operating Systems. There are a few exceptions to using the ISC license on Atheros drivers, when in doubt consult the header of the file for the respective license of the file.
As far as firmware is concerned Atheros does try to open source firmware when possible with the first release being that of ar9170.fw. When not possible (lack of resources mainly) we do try to work with the community to see if this can be done through side community work, and only if not possible at all do we release firmware as binary with a friendly standard redistributable license.
I've tried toggling the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" option in the adapter settings, but that doesn't seem to help the issue. I've tried resetting the adapter with practically every cli command known to the Windows world and I've tried disabling IPv6.
Windows network diagnosis states "Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings." I have instructed Windows to detect proxy settings automatically in inetcpl.cpl's LAN settings, but this diagnosis persists.
In the "Property" box, select "HT mode", in the "Value" box, select "Enabled or HT mode 20 or HT Mode 2040" and click "OK" (note: If you have default windows driver installed then you may have options in the dropdown like "HT Mode 2040". If you found then select it).
Recently I will get a wifi adapter and its chipset is qca9882, based on ath10k driver.
I wanna check something that linux kernel 3.11 default include atk10k driver,
current version is 3.10, is there schedule to update linux kernel probably?
Sorry, but I am pretty new to such things. Why is the kernel so old by the way? I am even less familiar with the ARM front but on x64 there is kernel 4.4 already. It is only that specific 3.10 L4T kernel that has the necessary drivers to make the TK1 work?
Thanks for any help in advance!
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I had integrated ath10k driver into TK1, the way I used is re-build kernel.
The way is download kernel source and copy ath10k driver to right place (it should be /kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath ), and you also need to modify Makefile and Kconfig files to add ath10k in it.
Please remember to enable it when you make menuconfig, then start to build kernel and update kernel.
If there is a back port then the Kconfig itself should already be partially updated, or else an explicit make command for the ath10k defconfig may work for compiling just this module and not requiring menuconfig in that single module case.
OK, I got it going. Basically I found the hard of the dead computer the wireless NIC had come from. I put it an enclosure and connected it to the computer I was working on. I did a driver search on that volume. It found it and it worked.
When things concern a hardware component I always attempt to ensure that the components are properly connected, turned on and enabled. If you have any ways to check, try to verify that all of these items are working properly.
If you know the name of the driver your device uses (mine for example is ath9k), you can see if it loaded at all:
lsmod grep ath
If you cannot see it, try to force it to load (change the drivername for your correct driver name).
sudo modprobe ath9k
Glad you figured it out; diagnosing issues is not a natural thing unless you are either a hardware or software engineering type.
In any case, you did a very good job figuring this out; congratulations!
I am using dell laptop for home assistant and found a problem with wifi too. Wpa_supplicant created issues on reboot, which I was unable to fully work out. I decided to switch to ethernet and I would recommend it too - zero network connectivity problems since then
I am in much the same boat. I have an HP t620 Thin Client and I have installed the INTEL NUC version - everything seems to be working - except WiFi. Apparently the WiFi card in it is BROADCOM Model BCM943228HMB (which has Bluetooth as well).
Many firmwares for WIFI and BT modules are not distributed through the install medias due to copyrights issues.
You then need to install them manually at some point in the install process or as a post installation.
Question is - how would I get the needed drivers for it - and then get them installed. Does not appear to be setup like a standard Linux installation. Many commands (of the ones that I know for Linux) do nothing.
3) Click the Update button next to a flagged network adapter driver to automatically download the correct version of this driver, then you can manually install it (you can do this with the FREE version).
Like many organizations, the FSF is suffering financially. Operational costs have risen and revenue has not kept up, because people all over the world are going through the same challenges as we are. The FSF has an important role to play for computer users globally for years to come, and we still have a lot of work to do.
"This increased support of wireless drivers by Atheros is a major steptoward our vision of a laptop that runs only free software and thatboots on top of a free BIOS," says Peter Brown, executive director ofthe FSF.
The release of the ath9k driver comes shortly after Atheros hired LuisRodriguez and Jouni Malinen, two important developers in the freesoftware wireless driver community. The ath9k are now seeking inclusion in the Linux kernel. For more information on supported devices and chipsets visit
More information about hardware that is compatible with fully freeoperating systems can be found in the FSF's hardware database, at To learn more about the FSF's vision of an all free laptop, read the paper "The road to hardware free from restrictions: How hardware vendors can help the free softwarecommunity," _hardware_vendors_can_help.html.
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