On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 10:26 -0700, Jack Wilborn wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Version: 2.11.3-4 > > I installed from a commercially purchased Debian 6.0.6 Installation > DVD i386 from LinuxCollections.com. Installation was successful, > although I have no Internet access to this machine as my only access > is via an iPhone 4 as a WiFi Hotspot. The installation did not > install 'wireless-tools' package, so I could only use 'ifconfig' to > check for any wireless activity. The 'lspci -knn' is included and the > following is it's output. The installer for Debian 6.0 'squeeze' does not include commands for wireless networking configuration in the 'laptop' task. However, the Network Manager GUI included in the 'desktop' task can be used to configure wireless networking for a single-user system. [...] > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9300 > Wireless LAN adaptor [168c:0030] (rev 01) > Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:3112] > > > The last entry is the network Wireless card that is not working. This > is a new install, when I tried previously, I attempted to load the > ath9k.ko module by hand as it was not loaded by the machine at > install. It still would not operate. With a few exceptions, driver modules have a list of device IDs they will work with and they are automatically loaded based on that. They won't touch any device whose ID is not on the list, so loading 'by hand' has no effect. The version of ath9k in 'squeeze' doesn't support this particular device, and looking at the upstream changes it's clear that some quite large changes were needed to support it. I'm disappointed that we haven't added support for many new wireless networking chips in point releases (6.0.x), but since the release of 'wheezy' is now imminent that's not going to change. [..] > I have found, what I consider conflicting information about this card. > On the Debian site for ath9k drivers > (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k) they state there is > some way to "Enabling ath9k", which I don't understand and seems that > it includes building the kernel on your machine. They also mention > using the supplied kernel to do something like it, using the 'proc' > command. I find this in man, but it's not on my machine. I have also > found this at another page in Debian stating that the chipset is > support, as Grace from TP-Link stated. The sam page as the driver > above, about half way down under 'supported chipsets' and AR9003 the > AR9380 is there, but I'm confused as to the terminology. I am running > (via uname -r) 2.6.32-5-amd64, they specify something like >= 2.6.36? [...] Right. I recommend that you install a later kernel version from the squeeze-backports suite <http://wiki.debian.org/Backports>. Installing the linux-image-amd64 package from there should give you essentially the same kernel as will be in 'wheezy'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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