I have a very odd difficulty with getting my wireless card working.
The first thing that must be understood is that in one setup it does work.
If I install Linux 2.6.28-libre-fshoppe1 and its corresponding headers for
Trisquel 3.0 32bit (as this is from a .deb package on Ali's site) my wireless
works. It is running ath9k. It takes no configuration. All I have to do is
left click my network manager app in the bottom right hand corner and left
click my wireless network connection.
That being said, when I install newer kernels from Ali's site from the .deb
packages the wireless will not work. The network app will simply not list
any wireless networks. I have had many e-mail exchanges with Ali and he has
tried to help but it is not yet solved.
I have installed Trisquel 3.0 64bit on my laptop and have compiled even newer
Linux Libre Kernels from source code. They run great. But they still do not
get wireless. Nor does kernel that comes with Trisquel. And in compiling I
had made sure that the proper drivers were included.
When I type in sudo modprobe ath9k, is goes through but nothing happens.
When I type in lsmod | grep ath9k I get the fallowing
lsmod | grep ath9k
ath9k 244212 0
mac80211 204504 2 b43,ath9k
ath 10464 1 ath9k
led_class 5576 3 b43,ath9k,sdhci
cfg80211 102936 4 b43,ath9k,mac80211,ath
When I typed in “sudo ifconfig wlan0 up” on the newest kernel I compiled
from source, it told me “ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
device” When I typed the same thing into the one older kernel that works,
it went through and did not say anything back.
Why would one older Linux Libre Kernel work great and newer ones installed
from .deb packages or compiled from source do not work? In fact, so much
that they do not even see the device?
Could someone please help.
Thank GNU.
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