Ath5k is a completely FOSS wireless driver
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Why is my machine flooding the wireless with LLC protocol packets? [closed]
Shortly after upgrading to the recent kernel 3.2.0-36-generic I started to notice that my wireless connection got seriously jammed:
Anything over the web (SSH, HTTP(S)) appears to be a bit slow.
...
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Kconfig file explanation
I have battled to find any information on the web as to how the Kconfig file works... the impression that I have developed after all my reading is that it is used exclusively when ...
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How to use Atheros ath5k driver with aircrack-ng?
I have read pages and pages of wiki and I'm just more confused than ever as to driver and patches to use with the aircrack-ng suite. The card chipset is ath5k but the info is conflicting as to which ...
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How to enable ath5k debug
I want to enable ath5k "debugging mode" and "tracer".
I found these:
Link1 and Link2 but they don't work.
I followed these steps:
Run make menuconfig, enable "Atheros 5xxx debugging" and "Atheros ...
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Need to restart to detect wireless again, (Xubuntu 11.10 AMD 32 bit)
My wireless connection tends to break from time to time. When that happens, there are no wireless networks displayed in Network Manager. WICD can't detect any either. The only thing I can do is to ...
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wifi working during install of 12.04 ubuntu server, but not after restarting
I have an atheros wifi chipset. During install of 12.04 ubuntu server, the wifi is recognized and used.
But on restart, it's not working.
lspci shows:
Atheros Communications Inc. AR512/AR513 ...
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1answer
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Wi-fi with ath5k - bad connections after idle
I used some older Ubuntu (so I guess it used madwifi), now I installed new Ubuntu 11.10, but I got problem with wifi, it uses ath5k - everything works, downloading etc, but if I stay to read some page ...
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Atheros AR242x wireless on an Acer Aspire XG8 not working after upgrading to 11.10 [closed]
Netbook: Acer Aspire ZG8
OS: 11.10
Previous OS: 11.04
Wireless: Atheros AR242x / AR542x
Driver: ath5k
Problem: Wireless networking worked fine until upgrading to 11.10. Since upgrading I ...
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Help set up Atheros ar242x/ar542x wireless adapter
I googled the problem and found this link:
http://sage.bt/tips/get-atheros-ar242x-ar542x-wireless-card-to-work-on-ubuntu.html
Unfortunately when I input the command into the terminal I get this ...
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1answer
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Sudden WiFi issues. How to troubleshoot? (ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo/noise floor calibration) [closed]
Recently I have big issues with wifi (before it worked always fine) on a Samsung NC10:
it takes minutes to conenect,
it disconenct if I am in the next room and just proper works around 1.5m of the ...
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Can't detect wireless connections with an Atheros AR2413 on an Acer Aspire 3630
This is a new installation of Ubuntu 11.10 on an acer aspire 3630. The cd drive is broken so I had to install Ubuntu over network (and I suspect it did not install all the packages in the normal ...
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How can I re-enable ath5k driver for my wifi card? [closed]
I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 and Network Manager wasn't working. In the flurry of action to attach to my network I loaded an inf file through ndiswrapper ndisgtk, but looking back at the commands that I ...
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1answer
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How do I install the ath5k driver?
I'm trying to install the ath5k driver in Maverick, but the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes#Wireless don't work. I've tried to install (sudo apt-get install) ...
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Wireless problems with Atheros AR9285
I have a Samsung N210 and just installed Ubuntu. I'm new to Linux and I have some problems.
I'm using Linksys WRT110 Router. When I'm connected via ethernet cable everything's fine but when I unplug ...
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1answer
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Enable only 802.11b/g in a 802.11n in atheros wireless card
I sometimes connect to a defective wireless AP in my office, whose 802.11n is somehow faulty. My Maverick netbook has an atheros AR9285 wireless, which supports 802.11n and wants to connect the AP ...
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Atheros wireless not working
I have been struggling hard since i have installed Ubuntu 10.10 but it has been difficult for me to get my wifi working.
So here is what i tried.
First i checked whether i have the driver using the ...
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Acer Aspire One AOA110 randomly hard blocks WLAN0 - How to stop it [closed]
My Aspire One netbook is now a notbook.
It's an AOA-110 that has worked fine forever and a day (currently with Maverick UNR, fully updated). Last night, I was ereading and went to go online to ...
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Need wired/wireless atheros driver for AR9285 and AR8152
How can I install atheros drivers to my Toshiba laptop (64bit), manually?
I need AR9285 wireless adapter, and AR8152(v1.1) wired, fast ethernet.
I cannot connect my UberStudent1.0 (linux OS, ...
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1answer
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Cannot connect through wireless interface on a server?
lshw -C network shows
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus ...
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How to Activate wifi in Toshiba Satellite C655?
I've recently bought a Toshiba Satellite C655. It came with Windows 7 preinstalled. I've never had a notebook before, but as a desktop user, I was a Ubuntu user since 2 years, and I've never had a ...
