Hi guys. I'm having problems with my wireless nic, on a notebook. The card is an ath9k 802.11n wireless adapter. The driver is loaded, wpa_supplicant and wicd get to recognize them, I can see the association working correctly, but I can't get the card to authenticate, it ALWAYS times out. I tried looking at the kernel documentation for the ath9k driver, but without success. I'll look for it using the work internet.
Anyway, does anyone with a similar setup had any problems with atheros nics? And how did you solve it? Thinking further, I had to enable wireless extensions (wext) to make wicd handle ath9k. Should I disable it and stick to wpa_supplicant? Also, I'm using a non-modular kernel, compiling everything in it. Yesterday I left the notebook making a new modular kernel, with sound and wireless drivers modular. I'm almost going all the way to genkernel. Any clues? I'm running ~amd64, kernel 3.3.0. 3.1.X worked somewhat ok, but I can't shake the feeling that under Windows this laptop of mine would work flawlessly. I'm not whining, just wanna find a comparable configuration, and solve my usability issues. Thanks -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira
