Linux Mint 10 Wireless Adapter Setup

splap · 03-29-2011, 12:33 PM

Hi guys,

I'm trying to help my friend set up their wireless adapter on Linux Mint 10, but it's not showing up under "additional drivers".

The results of lspci | grep "Network":

Code:

06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Results of lshw show a disabled network though

Code:

*-pci:3
  description: PCI bridge
  product: MCP79 PCI Express Bridge
  vendor: nVidia Corporation
  physical id: 17
  bus info: pci@0000:00:17.0
  version: b1
  width: 32 bits
  clock: 33MHz
  capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
  configuration: driver=pcieport
  resources: irq:41 memory:feb00000-febfffff
  *-network DISABLED
    description: Wireless interface
    product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
    vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
    logical name: wlan0
    version: 01
    serial: 00:25:d3:88:3e:32
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion:2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
    resources: irq:19 memory:febf0000-febfffff

And, the results for iwconfig:

Code:

lo         no wireless extensions

eth0       no wireless extensions

wlan0      IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any
           Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off
           Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
           Power Management:on

If there's anything else you guys need to know I'll get back to you on it!

Thanks

reed9 · 03-29-2011, 02:53 PM

Install the package linux-backports-modules-wireless-maverick-generic.

splap · 03-30-2011, 08:59 AM

I actually feel really stupid... the internet didn't work because the wireless adapter button was off! I should remember next time to check the basics before fiddling with anything else!