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I updated from 12.04(All working) to 12.10 last night and unable to get the wireless driver working properly. It seems to work with no wireless security, but not with WPA. I have tried with other wireless devices and all seems ok.

The laptop is a ASUS X53Z. When I run the following

lspci -nn

I get the following output

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)

Hope someone can please help???

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Edit the file

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and add this

blacklist acer-wmi

or you might have to do the following:

sudo modprobe -rfv ath9k
sudo modprobe -v ath9k nohwcrypt=1

If that works you can make it permanent:

/etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf

Add the following line:

options ath9k nohwcrypt=1

Reboot.

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  • Hi. Thanks for answering my question. I can dynamically remove and add the driver using and the following and that works. Although I dont have the /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf file. What file should I change?
    – paul
    Nov 18, 2012 at 10:59
  • Just created the file, added the line above and rebooted. All works fine. Thanks cprofit
    – paul
    Nov 18, 2012 at 13:02
  • glad to know it worked @paul - you should accept the answer so this is marked as solved.
    – cprofitt
    Nov 19, 2012 at 2:09
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even with cprofitt's answer this wasn't solved for me.

My config is HP 450 with ath9k driver.

For me lspci -nn yields same as the OP.

I found from this post that it will be solved if the N-channel (802.11n) is disabled in the router.

Although it may not be feasible to somebody, this is an alternate answer (which is definitely working for me).

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