I opened up my Mac Mini[0] to see if I could put in a longer range wireless
antenna. I closed it back up, as the extended antenna wouldn't fit, but when
I turned it on, the wireless didn't work. The wireless card has always worked
before, as it is Atheros. I know it is not a hardware problem, as I am typing
this running off of the Trisquel 6.0 Live CD, connected to the wireless
network.
$ sudo lspci -v
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x
Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. AR5BXB6 802.11abg Wireless Mini PCIe Card
Physical Slot: 1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at 90100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k
Before I booted into the Live CD, I noticed that the last two lines
indicating which driver is in use were not present.
[0] http://lowendmac.com/2006/mac-mini-early-2006/
