the intel wifi laptop has this in sys-net on boot
Oct 27 07:56:09 sys-net kernel: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
Oct 27 07:56:09 sys-net kernel: Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation
Oct 27 07:56:09 sys-net kernel: iwlwifi :00:00.0: Xen PCI mapped GSI18 to
IRQ26
Oct 27 07:56:09 s
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8:50:18 PM UTC-7, Dan Ballard wrote:
> I upgraded my netbook from Linux 4.4.67 to 4.9.35 and lost wifi ability on
> it. I believe it was an Atheros chip using the ath9k driver. At least with it
> I've been able to boot the old 4.4.67 kernel and retain wireless.
>
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8:50:18 PM UTC-7, Dan Ballard wrote:
> I upgraded my netbook from Linux 4.4.67 to 4.9.35 and lost wifi ability on
> it. I believe it was an Atheros chip using the ath9k driver. At least with it
> I've been able to boot the old 4.4.67 kernel and retain wireless.
>
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8:50:18 PM UTC-7, Dan Ballard wrote:
> I upgraded my netbook from Linux 4.4.67 to 4.9.35 and lost wifi ability on
> it. I believe it was an Atheros chip using the ath9k driver. At least with it
> I've been able to boot the old 4.4.67 kernel and retain wireless.
>
On my acer netbook with the Atheros wifi I redid some testing. Under 4.4 the
wifi worked but under 4.9 the wifi was also hard off listed under rfkill
Luckily, for this device I found
https://askubuntu.com/questions/98702/how-to-unblock-something-listed-in-rfkill
Which said that the kernel module
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8:50:18 PM UTC-7, d...@mindstab.net wrote:
> I upgraded my netbook from Linux 4.4.67 to 4.9.35 and lost wifi ability on
> it. I believe it was an Atheros chip using the ath9k driver. At least with it
> I've been able to boot the old 4.4.67 kernel and retain wireles
