I have a 1001px, which Ubuntu 10.04 worked fine off out of the box except for wifi (ath9k as well), found a thread on the Ubuntu forums which suggested upgrading to kernel 2.6.34, just downloaded the deb from launchpad.net and installed, rebooted and wifi was fine.
uname -r 2.6.34-020634-generic -- Regards Morgan Storey On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/08/10 10:26, Jon Jermey wrote: > > Under Windows it can be turned on or off with Fn-F2, and it's always on > > after booting. I don't know any other way. > > > > The output from > > > > lspci -v > > > > tells me it's an Atheros Communications Inc Device 002c (revo 01) > > Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1112 > > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 > > Memory at fbff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > > Capabilities: <access denied> > > > > iwconfig shows no wireless extensions on lo or eth0. > > > > Hopefully this means more to some of you than it does to me. > > > > The next step is to try ndiswrapper, I guess. > > > > Jon. > > Don't know if this is the problem, but you mentioned that eth0 works > fine. When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 it picked up eth0 and forgot about > wireless. I had to connect up using eth0 and download the wireless > extensions. After that all worked fine. > See what iwconfig says. > > Heracles > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxaIKcACgkQybPcBAs9CE935gCgn15UfyPYWW/DHXMiVZrN/rM8 > NeMAn0x/CosJTCl5w6ryAH6TcF5tY4eq > =wamI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
