On 15 January 2013 19:51, Alexander Steidel <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using Mageia 2 and my wifi is the Atheros ub 91 > it is built in on the msi fm2 a75ia e53 motherboard; > > in the network center i can see the wifi wlan part. but there is an > error message that they cant find the device for the driver ath9k.htc > the build in bluetooth adapter is not working too. > > > Am 15.01.2013 16:56, schrieb Maurice Batey: >> On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:16:40 +0100, Alexander Steidel wrote: >> >>> i just installed magei 2 with gnome but i had a problem with the >>> atheros wlan. >>> is there a way that i can activate the wlan feature ? >> If you tell us how and when the problem manifested itself, someone >> might be able to help. >> >> The WiFi problem I had with Mageia-2 was that one of the s/w updates >> broke it - it could no longer connect to the router. >> What worked there was to use MCC to install >> "kernel-network-nonfree" (a suggestion I found when Googling for the >> problem) - but that didn't solve the Mageia-3 WiFi problem I later had.. >
I have no experience with atheros cards, but with intel ones, after loading the driver a reboot is required before the card can be initialized. THis could be similar to the issue you are having.
