Slackware Not Recognizing Wifi in a Dell Inspiron i3646
I installed Slackware 14.1 on a Dell Inspiron i3646. Everything works except for the built in wifi. ifconfig shows the built in wired network card (and the loopback network of course) but reports no Wireless card. Network manager from within KDE also has trouble finding the wireless card. Problem is I am also uncertain as to who makes the chipset behind the wifi card and no amount of googling has led me to a clear answer.
Any suggestions or solutions? Thanks. |
lspci should be able to provide some insight on the wireless card. From there, it might require additional firmware to be able to work properly. If you can't figure it out from the output, paste it here and we'll see what we can do to help you get this working :)
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02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) |
This might help: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
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As frankbell points out, your device should be supported by the ath9k kernel module.
Is the driver being loaded? Check with '/sbin/lspci -k | grep "02:00.0" -A 3' If not, do the product and vendor IDs of your device ( found in the output of '/sbin/lspci -kn | grep "02:00.0" ' ) appear in the output of '/sbin/modinfo ath9k' ? i.e. Any output from this command? /sbin/modinfo ath9k | grep -i $(/sbin/lspci -kn | grep "02:00.0" | cut -d " " -f3 | sed 's/:/.*/') |
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Looks like yes the kernel module for the network controller (ath9k) is in fact being loaded (based on the output from "/sbin/lspci -k | grep "02:00.0" -A 3"). |
Good! I was concerned that your device may not have been recognized by the kernel. Slackware 14.1 has the 3.10.17 kernel and support for your device appeared in the 3.10 series.
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I am replying with this message from that Dell PC (actually a laptop motherboard that Dell shoves into a cheap desktop enclosure). BTW how do you get LinuxQuestions to recognize that I am using Slackware, it still shows a generic Linux icon in my case. :Pengy: Thanks again! |
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