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Asked: 2012-02-08 05:22:46 +0800 CST

Wireless on my EEE 1005HA doesn't work properly yet there's no additional driver listed

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Reception is full but it often fails to connect to web pages. Kernel after updating: 3.0.0-15. Router Model is D-Link DIR-615. How can I find an appropriate Linux driver?

The first one (output):

    *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:25:d3:5e:e6:b0
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.0.0-12-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:17 memory:fbff0000-fbffffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: AR8132 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c0
       serial: 00:26:18:ac:ed:e6
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:45 memory:f7fc0000-f7ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128)

The second one:

   0: eeepc-wlan: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: eeepc-bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

The third one:

Linux arno-1005HA 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
wireless drivers 11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Download and install the latest stable compat-wireless-3.3-rc1-2.tar.bz2

    http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/stable/#compat-wireless_3.3_stable_releases

    open up a terminal

    cd Desktop or where_ever_you_downloaded_the_file 

    tar -xf compat-wireless-3.3.rc1-2.tar.bz2

cd compat-wireless-3.3.rc1-2

make

sudo make install

sudo make unload

    OR

    you could use the windows driver with ndiswrapper

    install ndiswrapper

    locate the .inf file

    /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper

    One last ditch effort

    Wireless (Atheros AR9285) works out of the box, but connection is flaky. To fix, open a terminal and type 'sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic'

    PER UBUNTU https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks

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