Getting Wifi to work -- Atheros AR9565, Debian Wheezy

wspark · 11-15-2014, 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

Not installed
also

rfkill list does:

Code:

root@E3-111:/home/wspark# rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Then lsmod, iwlist commands below. Again, nothing that I can tell as a success story just yet:

Code:

root@E3-111:/home/wspark# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             22364  0 
ppdev                  12763  0 
lp                     17149  0 
parport                31858  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
rfcomm                 33700  10 
bnep                   17567  2 
binfmt_misc            12957  1 
uinput                 17440  1 
nfsd                  216181  2 
nfs                   308353  0 
nfs_acl                12511  2 nfs,nfsd
auth_rpcgss            37143  2 nfs,nfsd
fscache                36739  1 nfs
lockd                  67306  2 nfs,nfsd
sunrpc                173730  6 lockd,auth_rpcgss,nfs_acl,nfs,nfsd
loop                   22641  0 
uvcvideo               57744  0 
videodev               70889  1 uvcvideo
v4l2_compat_ioctl32    16655  1 videodev
media                  18148  2 videodev,uvcvideo
i2c_core               23876  1 videodev
joydev                 17266  0 
btusb                  17502  2 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   188851  1 
bluetooth             119455  23 btusb,bnep,rfcomm
snd_hda_intel          26259  2 
snd_hda_codec          78031  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hwdep              13186  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                68083  2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc         13003  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq                45126  0 
snd_seq_device         13176  1 snd_seq
snd_timer              22917  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
acer_wmi               26081  0 
snd                    52893  12 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
soundcore              13065  1 snd
coretemp               12898  0 
ac                     12624  0 
acpi_cpufreq           12935  1 
crc32c_intel           12747  0 
ghash_clmulni_intel    13130  0 
cryptd                 14517  1 ghash_clmulni_intel
sparse_keymap          12760  1 acer_wmi
psmouse                69265  0 
pcspkr                 12579  0 
serio_raw              12931  0 
rfkill                 19012  4 acer_wmi,bluetooth
mperf                  12453  1 acpi_cpufreq
evdev                  17562  18 
battery                13146  0 
power_supply           13475  2 battery,ac
wmi                    13243  1 acer_wmi
video                  17683  0 
processor              28149  3 acpi_cpufreq
button                 12937  0 
usbhid                 36418  0 
hid                    81372  1 usbhid
ext4                  350763  2 
crc16                  12343  2 ext4,bluetooth
jbd2                   62115  1 ext4
mbcache                13114  1 ext4
sg                     25874  0 
sd_mod                 36136  4 
crc_t10dif             12348  1 sd_mod
ahci                   24997  3 
libahci                22941  1 ahci
thermal                17383  0 
thermal_sys            18040  3 thermal,processor,video
xhci_hcd               73413  0 
libata                140630  2 libahci,ahci
ehci_hcd               40249  0 
scsi_mod              162321  3 libata,sd_mod,sg
usbcore               128741  6 ehci_hcd,xhci_hcd,usbhid,uvcvideo,btusb
usb_common             12354  1 usbcore
r8169                  47008  0 
mii                    12675  1 r8169
root@E3-111:/home/wspark# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning.

root@E3-111:/home/wspark# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning.

EDDY1 · 11-15-2014, 02:10 PM

Have you edited your /etc/apt/sources.list?
Have you installed firmware-linux-nonfree? The carl driver is supplied by this firmware.

zeebra · 11-23-2014, 09:44 AM

What does the command "iwconfig" tell you?

It should list all wireless extensions (wireless cards) and give you the name of it.

Your card is not active, which means you need to do "ifconfig nameofcard up" after you find the name of the card with "iwconfig". Its not exactly easy to configure with ifconfig, so you should use your network manager.

I have an acer laptop and had some issues due to "acer_wmi" module, which you also have there. You might need to blacklist it! Make a file named "blacklist_acer_wmi.conf" in the folder /etc/modprobe.d and then make 1 line in it "blacklist acer_wmi".

This blacklists the module and does not load it on startup. This is ofcourse only useful if you have an Acer laptop which have some bugs or issues with acer_wmi, like my model did (with one distro, but not another). It was some time ago now, but as far as I can remotely remember it, the acer_wmi module screwed up the rfkill function. (fn+f3)