I recently bought a new computer that has an Atheros AR9485 wireless NIC. So far it has been working ok except this one issue: Randomly (as far as I can tell) it will completely lose the internet connection. The indicator in the top panel will still say we are connected but the machine has no internet connectivity whatsoever.
I've been able to get it working again by simply disconnecting from my wireless AP and then reconnecting, but this is annoying. Is there anything I can do to make the connection more stable?
I have tried passing the nohwcrypt=1
to the driver, but that made it impossible to connect to any AP, it just infinity attempted to connect.
sudo modprobe -rfv ath9k
sudo modprobe -v ath9k nohwcrypt=1
I've also tried upgrading my kernel to Linux 4.0 but the problem persists.
Exact chip:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
Driver:
$ ls /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver/module/drivers
pci:ath9k platform:ath9k
and lsmod
:
user@host:~$ lsmod | grep -e ath -e ndis
ath3k 20480 0
bluetooth 491520 9 bnep,ath3k,btusb
ath9k 147456 0
ath9k_common 32768 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 458752 2 ath9k_common,ath9k
ath 32768 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
mac80211 724992 1 ath9k
cfg80211 540672 4 ath,ath9k_common,ath9k,mac80211
output from wireless script: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12625978/
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 on Linux 4.0.0-040000-generic on a Lenovo G510.
I'm wondering now if I could possibly have anything to do with my wireless mouse, which also operates on 2.4GHz..