Slackware on Acer Aspire 5749-6850 (all working except wifi)
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Yeah, which is why I was hoping that upgrading to the latest kernel would fix it. I compiled my own (3.1.4) and the device started to show up but it still doesn't work:
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Code:
# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
I guess I could try to use exactly the same kernel as Fedora uses, and see what happens.
You could try using the SlackBuild for the kernel-firmware in -current. It pulls the latest git. I have a wifi stick that only started to work after I did that.
You could try using the SlackBuild for the kernel-firmware in -current. It pulls the latest git. I have a wifi stick that only started to work after I did that.
Thanks for the suggestion. It built and installed successfully but didn't seem to have any effect.
I also looked in dmesg, and it seems (though I'm not sure) that the driver is loading successfully. Maybe the problem is userspace configuration?
Code:
[ 8.010406] ath9k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 8.010511] ath9k 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 8.018566] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65
[ 8.018567] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 8.018570] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 8.018571] ath: Regpair used: 0x65
[ 8.019328] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'
[ 8.019498] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
[ 8.019506] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9485 Rev:1 mem=0xf8f00000, irq=17
Network manager is available for Slackware 13.37 at slackbuilds.org, but, that does not help you if you can not get wireless working. I suppose you could build networkmanager on a slackware box that has a wired connection and move the packages over via thumb drive.
Ok, I will officially admit I've been an idiot. I forgot to configure wicd to use wlan0 as the wireless interface I probably didn't need to recompile my kernel
Thanks for the help everyone.
This is a great laptop for linux by the way. Right now everything works.
BTW: I installed networkmanager from slackbuilds but the gui for it (also from slackbuilds) seems to require gnome. I'm not feeling like going down that rat hole
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